bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

[Chris Cheney]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 15:05 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Friday 10 April 2009 2:47:13 pm Chris Cheney wrote:
> > I often get bug reports from users due to their systems running out of
> > disk space such as this bug:
> 
> IMO, we should default apt to not storing /var/cache/apt/archives forever.  
> There's an option in Software Sources to have it remove old packages.  Maybe 
> this could be an automatic thing after each upgrade in the future?

Yes, that is a very good point as well though in many cases I have seen
it is due to having a partition that is too small to begin with. Often
the bugs are from users that are using USB sticks to install Ubuntu on.
However, this last bug report was from a user who had a 2GB /usr
partition.

Chris