On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:33:50PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500 > Whit Hansell <skippe...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hello Whit, > > >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with > >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to > >get a reasonable amount of free space? Running Jessie on an amd64 box. > > Look at /var/cache/apt - that may well have lots of Debian packages in > it. IIRC, default settings is to keep them forever, once d/l'd from the > repos. Personally, I change this to delete after successful > installation. However, flushing that directory may gain a huge amount > of space.
... which can be done with (as root): apt-get clean -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
