Can update cause memory overloaded?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Hai Dao Le wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I run Ubuntu in my computer in a partition of 20GB and now there is only
> 7GB free. I wonder if software update can cause my HDD overloaded in
> someday since updates coming everyday and require download and install.

Not easily, since old files are rewritten by the new ones.  However,
there are some exceptions.  For instance, old versions of the Linux
kernel are kept.  You can remove old packages using Synaptic.

Matt Flaschen