/var got really big

[Chris Mohler]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have a 1 day old install of ubuntu 8.04 server.  My /var directory is
>> pretty big.  It seems that most of it is a collection of about 900MB of
>> .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives.  (I installed kde, gnome and xfce
>> desktops) I usually won't worry too much but I installed /var on a
>> separate 3GB partition and if it keeps growing it will run out of
>> space.  My laptop's /var is only 90MB which is what led me to think 3GB
>> would be plenty of space.  Do the files in the apt archive ever get
>> cleaned out?  Is it safe to delete them?
>
> sudo apt-get clean should sort you out.

Sorry - poor formatting...

"sudo apt-get clean" is the command.

Chris