On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:36:47 Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 12:20:51 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 > > > > Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files > > > you do not need (for example old packages). > > > > Or just su to root in a console, cd to /var/cache/apt/archive and rm > > -f *.deb to remove all the old packages. > > Why have a dog and bark yourself? > > apt-get autoclean Not enough. Apt-get clean/autoclean just goes so far. I have that /var/cache/apt on the oversized home that the installation partitions and I symlink that back to /var/cache.
Would be better to mount --bind. This is what I did to have /opt and /usr/local. Also not enough room. When I get another disk, can stop all this trickery, but until then, it is OK.