/var/archive
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. Any advice, please? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/archive
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:38:42PM +, Tony van der Hoff 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. Any advice, please? I don't have anything under /var/archives, but maybe the following snippets from apt-get(1) will help: clean clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. When APT is used as a dselect(8) method, clean is run automatically. Those who do not use dselect will likely want to run apt-get clean from time to time to free up disk space. autoclean Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long period without it growing out of control. The configuration option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from being erased if it is set to off. Running apt-get clean will likely reduce the stuff cached in your /var partition. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/archive
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:38:42PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: From: Tony van der Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: /var/archive Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on liszt.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.4 required=4.0 tests=LDOSUBSCRIBER,LDO_WHITELIST, ONEWORD,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SARE_RECV_CHAR_CARAT autolearn=failed version=3.2.3 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. /var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives To clean the archives after upgrade you have to do: sudo apt-get clean Nothing else ! -- Gérard
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--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:22:38 -0800 (PST) From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /var/archive To: Tony van der Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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. Any advice, please? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England You can config your package manager to delete packages after downloading and installing. I am new to Debian as well, also after many years of using Mandrake/Mandriva. Debian must be configed by default to store packages after downloading/installing. I use apt-get/synaptic, and find it to be a very easy to use and robust manager. In the preferences you can config to delete after the download/install. I am using a Debian Etch based distro called Dreamlinux, and I am thus far very impressed with the stability and power that Debian offers. Best regards. -- Angus ##Linux Laptop powered by Debian Linux## ###Reg. Linux User #278931### Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/archive
On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] /var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives To clean the archives after upgrade you have to do: Yes, my mistake; it's where you say. sudo apt-get clean Done that - works a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? Thanks very much to all who replied. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: /var/archive
[snip] /var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives To clean the archives after upgrade you have to do: Yes, my mistake; it's where you say. sudo apt-get clean Done that - works a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? Thanks very much to all who replied. Cheers, Tony Every time you do a 'apt-get upgrade', that's where those packages go. So if at some future time you have to re-install a particular package, you don't have to re-download the package. Another point, you can either use 'apt-get clean', which removes the contents of that directory, or 'apt-get autoclean' which only removes the older packages, leaving the superseded packages intact. That helps in cleaning up some disk space without removing everything. That's good if you have the room. -mike -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/archive
Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote sudo apt-get clean Done that - works a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? When you download .debs, this is the default location where they are stored for subsequent installation. Many people, once the .debs have been installed, can then delete them (as per Gerard's suggestion above), but some folks like to keep them around for various reasons (such as using the archive to then install the packages on another 19 machines in a school computer lab without having to download them another 19 times, etc). -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/archive
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 20:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] /var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives To clean the archives after upgrade you have to do: Yes, my mistake; it's where you say. sudo apt-get clean Done that - works a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? Thanks very much to all who replied. Cheers Tony Hi Tony. I'm on dialup, and it takes some time to download updates. If you have more than one instance of Debian Etch for example, it's usefull, and also saves Internet bandwidth in being able to use the already downloaded packages to update another machine. Normally I copy the archives to a fat32 partition, and can copy them back to the next machine I want to update, without having to download them all again. I know that most of the Internet bandwidth is taken up by spam, which is a bit sick, but no reason for us to keep downloading the same package versions time after time to upgrade our various machines. As I say I'm on dialup, but I believe the same applies if you're on broadband. There's no need to join in with the spammers who abuse the Internet. Of course it's also usefull if for reason or other you remove a package, then want to re-install it. You don't have to download it again, as it's already waiting in the archives. 2¢ worth of how I do stuff. Nigel.
Re: /var/archive
[snip] Of course it's also usefull if for reason or other you remove a package, then want to re-install it. You don't have to download it again, as it's already waiting in the archives. Thanks everyone; you'e a really helpful bunch here, and I'm learning a lot. I like this distro :) Cheers, Tony. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/archive
only thing that i have ever had in /var/archives are the md5sum's and tarballs for backups created by backup manager (needless to say i have since sent backup manager to /dev/null) jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /var/archive
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]
