Re: var is full...
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:33:50PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500
> Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Whit,
>
> >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with
> >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to
> >get a reasonable amount of free space? Running Jessie on an amd64 box.
>
> Look at /var/cache/apt - that may well have lots of Debian packages in
> it. IIRC, default settings is to keep them forever, once d/l'd from the
> repos. Personally, I change this to delete after successful
> installation. However, flushing that directory may gain a huge amount
> of space.
... which can be done with (as root):
apt-get clean
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