/var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
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.

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Ken Irving
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

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Gerard Robin
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

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2008-01-23 Thread Angus Auld
--- 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

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
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

RE: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Kuhar
[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

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Kent West
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.

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Nigel Henry
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

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
[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 :)

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread joseph lockhart
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

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
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