Re: disk space used by apt

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200]
> Hi,
>
> I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some  
> upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update,  
> or whatever with apt, it gives me that results:
>
> # du --max-depth 1 -h / | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
> 3,0G   var
> 2,5G   var/cache
>
> # du --max-depth 1 -h /var/cache/apt | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr
> 2,5G   var/cache/apt/archives
>
> Unexpeclty i found that i have zero space, which don't allow me to  
> normal office work
> of cource cleanig /var/cache/apt is remedy, but only for a while.
>
> Is there any locking mechanism which allow avoid eating whole disc by apt?

run 'apt-get clean'

The cache will be reduced of all the .deb.

Elimar

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