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Re: Root partition full



On Saturday 14 July 2007 23:32, Mastery wrote:
> I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root
> partition is full (7GB).What can i do now?
> Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk  or there is any
> other way to clean the / partition. I don't know how a 7 GB / is full
> since all the applications are stored in my home partition

It's worth having a look in /var/cache/apt/archives. You may find a load of 
files there that were downloaded when doing apt-get dist-upgrades. these 
files are not really needed anymore so doing an apt-get clean will give you a 
bunch of spare harddrive space.

Nigel.




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