From this, I determined that, for some reason, the var directory now
occupied over 18 GBs. So, I subsequently run the command
debian:/home/mark# du --max-depth=1 -m /var | sort -g, which indicated
that most of the space was in /var/archives. The contents are:
debian:/home/mark# ls /var/archives
debian-20051024.md5 debian-etc.20051024.tar.gz
debian-home.20051024.tar.gz
debian-20051025.md5 debian-etc.20051025.tar.gz
debian-home.20051025.tar.gz
I had installed a program "backup-manager", which I tried to run, but
since I saw nothing, I thought nothing of it. I now speculate that
maybe it was creating repeated backups, given the dates of these files.
So, for those more in the know, can I delete these files in
/var/archives? I've since uninstalled backup-manager. And how should I
backup my system?