Re: /var/archive
On Jan 23, 2008 9:38 AM, Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a
> newbie here.
>
> Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB
> /var partition, which always used to be plenty, but archives is now eating
> up 1.05 GB, so I'll have to move (or preferably delete) it.
Don't do that!
> Any advice, please?
The biggest space-waster in the /var/archive tree is apt. Your best
bet is apt-get autoclean, though if that doesn't free up enough space,
apt-get clean should.
--
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca
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