On Jan 23, 2008 9:38 AM, Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a > newbie here. > > Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB > /var partition, which always used to be plenty, but archives is now eating > up 1.05 GB, so I'll have to move (or preferably delete) it.
Don't do that! > Any advice, please? The biggest space-waster in the /var/archive tree is apt. Your best bet is apt-get autoclean, though if that doesn't free up enough space, apt-get clean should. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
