[Hoary] Cleaning house in apt-get/synaptic's cache (2.2 GB reclaimed)

[Michael Scottaline]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:51:52 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, I nearly ran out of room on my 4.6 GB Ubuntu partition (20
> GB drive, 15 for OS X, 5 for Ubuntu) -- 100% used (4.4 of 4.6 G
> according to 'df -h').
> 
> I decided to clean house and clean up the apt-get cache and managed to
> get rid of 2.2 G of junk using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
> 
> That's *a lot* (50% of my partition) of wasted room so... if you're
> wanting to reclaim a lot of disk space and you're using Hoary and
> update regularly, clean up apt-get's cache.
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Thanks for the worthwhile tip!!!!!!!!!
Mike
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