Default User wrote: > The biggest chunk of var used seems to be /var/cache/apt/archives, at > about 1.7Gb. > > I am considering just running sudo apt clean (or sudo apt-get clean) to > just clear out the packages cache completely, in order to free up space > in /var. > > I realize that any packages that need to be re-installed would take > more time to do so, since they would have to come from online > respositories. > > Other than that, is there any good reason not to do sudo apt clean?
Nope. It's just there to prevent having to re-download something that you uninstall and reinstall. -dsr-