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Re: freeing up some space

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On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 04:32:20PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> 
> Apparently the info about what's in this directory is also stored in some database somewhere,  so just going in there and deleting a bunch of stuff will probably break something...
> 

Yes.  

> > > I've mostly used synaptic,  but am also aware of apt-get,  apt,  aptitude,  and am not real
> > > clear on their comparative capabilities.
> 
> Time to read some man pages and some of the docs that also got installed on my system...   :-)
> 
> > > I'm looking at over 7500 files amounting to over 9.5GB.
> > >
> > > I also see /var/cache/dictionaries-common,  which appears to be tied to a
> > > spelling checker,  which I don't use here.  And /var/cache/samba,  which I
> > > also don't use -- there isn't a windoze machine around here at all.
> > >
> > > What's the best way to get all of this excess stuff out of the system?
> > 
> 
> Somebody (maybe more than one somebody) suggested a "clean" option,  but apparently that will get rid of *ALL* of those files.  I'd kinda prefer to keep the most recent of any of them that are still being used.  In perusing the docs for aptitude,  I see that there's an option in there to "clean obsolete files",  which sounds like it'll do just that.  I don't see such an option in apt-get,  or elsewhere (so far).

apt-get autoclean, yes, as recommended by others in the thread

> 
> Yeah.  But the detailed docs for aptitude are a whole lot more interesting and more detailed/explicit.
>  
> > If anyone test drives those for the first time, especially without
> > fully understanding what the notes are saying the options do, PLEASE
> > make sure to back up your system first. Been there, done that without
> > backing up in the past. It's not pretty..
> > 
> > Cindy :)
> 
> From what I understand I should be able to get the software to show me what it's planning on doing before it actually goes ahead and does it.   :-)
> 

Several of these also have --dry-run options or similar.

The quicker you can get yourself to 11, the happier you may well be :)

All the very best, as ever,

Andy Cater

> -- 
> Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
> ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
> be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
> -
> Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James 
> M Dakin
> 

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freeing up some space "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 19:30 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-11 20:00 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-01-11 20:00 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-01-11 20:30 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-11 21:10 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-11 22:40 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-11 22:50 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-15 17:00 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-11 21:10 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2022-01-11 22:10 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space "c. marlow" <debian@cwm030.com> - 2022-01-11 23:20 +0100
        Re: freeing up some space "c. marlow" <debian@cwm030.com> - 2022-01-11 23:30 +0100
        Re: freeing up some space Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-01-11 23:40 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-01-12 00:20 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-12 00:30 +0100
      Re: freeing up some space Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-12 00:30 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2022-01-11 23:10 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2022-01-12 04:20 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-01-12 05:10 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-12 17:00 +0100
  Re: freeing up some space David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-12 06:50 +0100
    Re: freeing up some space "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2022-01-12 17:10 +0100

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