Re: partition /var is full
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 05:14:36PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small.
> > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't
> > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin.
> > To solve the problem temporarily, I have removed the biggest files in
> > /var/log/.
> > How can I solve this problem neatly ?
>
> try?
> rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb
>
Sorry!
You do _not_ want the 'r' in rm -rf, as that'll delete the partial/
directory, which is needed by dpkg.
hth,
Patrick.
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