Re: solution to / full
On Wed 01 Mar 2023 at 13:33:32 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 06:12:09PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > On Wed 01 Mar 2023 at 17:43:41 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > In a pinch, you can "sudo apt-get clean", which purges the APT
> > > package cache, which lives in /var. You didn't show us /var,
> > > which might be interesting too (/var/log, in case some logs
> > > aren't rotated properly?)
> >
> > There should not be any actual packages in /var/cache/apt.
>
> This depends on whether one uses "apt" or "apt-get" or some other
> program to install packages. By default, "apt" removes the .deb files
> from /var/cache/apt/archives/ after installing them, but "apt-get"
> does not. For other programs, who knows.
Of course it depends. I assumed a default usage usage of
package management. It's been around long enough.
--
Brian.
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