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Re: var is full...

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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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var is full... Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2015-11-18 15:20 +0100
  Re: var is full... Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-11-18 15:40 +0100
    Re: var is full... Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-20 09:10 +0100
  Re: var is full... Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-11-18 15:50 +0100
    Re: var is full... Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-11-18 16:30 +0100
      Re: var is full... Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:40 +0100
        Re: var is full... David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-11-18 17:00 +0100
    Re: var is full... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:50 +0100
      Re: var is full... "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-11-18 17:00 +0100
        Re: var is full...(Solved) Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2015-11-18 23:40 +0100
  Re: var is full... Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2015-11-18 16:10 +0100
  Re: var is full... Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:10 +0100
    Re: var is full... Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2015-11-19 06:50 +0100
      Re: apt  WAS:var is full... Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2015-11-19 13:40 +0100
      Re: var is full... Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-20 09:30 +0100
        Re: var is full... Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-20 09:50 +0100
          Re: var is full... Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-20 10:50 +0100

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