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

[Ari Torhamo]

On su, 2005-02-20 at 08:51 -0500, Eric Dunbar 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.
>
>FYI I upgraded to Hoary in early December '04.
>
>Eric.
>

I tried it right a way. Just too bad I didn't check how much disk space
I have left before I did the cleaning. I thought that I would get some
sort of statistical presentation of everything removed. All I got was
the terminal being busy for a couple of seconds without anything being
printed to the screen and then I was back at the command line - what an
anticlimax :-) Is it supposed to go this way? Perhaps nothing did happen
because my cache is so overloaded that it can't be emptied :-o

Ari