Bug#61259: apt may make /var full
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 06:56:06PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.3.18
> Then I run df. My /var was full! Then I used this algorithm to find disk
> hogs.
>
> 1. cd /var
> 2. du -k * | sort -n
> 3. cd to directory that was biggest in output of aforementioned command
> 4. If you are not deep enough in directory tree, go to 2.
>
> I was in /var/cache/apt/archives. If I saw two versions of same package, I
> removed the older one. After that everything was fine again.
>
> So, what should we do? I have these suggestions:
Try:
1. Running apt through dselect; it cleans out after itself ("do you
want me to remove the downloaded packages?" or something like that)
2. RTFM: "apt-get clean" will remove all of these downloaded .deb
files
HTH,
Julian
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