Mike McCarty wrote:
That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find
it imaginable that /var would be < 500MB, my /var is < 300MB. And
on occasion, I have cleaned out the package manager stuff (though
it tends to come back).
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 7633264 6147620 1097896 85% /
/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
Not everyone can afford hundreds of Gigs of disc space.
If disc is so cheap, will you buy me a new, larger drive?
I do not have a monster drive, nor do I have more than one. I have a
single 40 GB drive. Of that, only about 14 GB is currently partitioned
for use. (I also do not have huge collections of music and video
files.) My /var is 2 GB and /var/cache/apt runs about 766 MB.
I was not happy with any of apts cleaning modes. What I wanted was
something that would keep a copy of anything that I DO have installed,
while letting me clear out anything that is NOT installed. I wrote a
python script (about 13 KB) that does just that. It prints the
following information (I just ran it and cleaned out some old files) and
then prompts you to clean out uninstalled packages, or extra copies of
installed packages.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CleanApt v0.4.0 - an apt cache cleaner
Total installed packages: 941 Total uninstalled packages in
archive: 0
Total packages in archive: 922 Total files in
archive: 922
Packages in archive w/dups: 0 Files in archive in dup
pkgs: 0
Nothing to clean in archives. Exiting.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Duplicate package files will be listed in order (as ls would print them)
with an asterisk by the one with the most recent date. You can tell the
script to keep the last displayed, or the most current by date. You can
also say not to delete any of the listed packages (this is the
default). It does not delete ANYTHING unless specifically told to.
You still end up with a lot of files since it keeps one for each
installed package, but at least I no longer have 12 old versions of a
package taking up space, as was the case for some packages prior to
using this script.
If anyone is interested in a copy of the script, please let me know. I
don't currently have a public ftp site, but I could put a link to it
somewhere on my website and you could get it from there.
--
Marc Shapiro
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