Bug#775163: apt pigs out in /var, particularly with multi-arch
Package: apt
Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u7
I've ended up examining how much space programs are using in /var, and
APT is the top pig, using close to half of /var as /var/lib/apt/lists,
one factor does appear to be exasperating this, `dpkg` has 5 foreign
architectures.
Trying a few compression methods:
426248 lists
114580 lists.gz
90868 lists.bz2
85648 lists.lzma
86532 lists.xz
Nearly all of this space is being used for the Packages files. Merely
compressing them would be a rather major improvement. The main Debian
testing file is the biggest of these.
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