Disk space went away after upgrade

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Wed Mar 11 12:19:47 UTC 2009


Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> John Conover wrote:
>> The auto upgrade of the recent Ubuntu in a Dell Mini 9 left very
>> little disk space.
> 
> There's no autoupgrade...  You have to agree.
> 
>> Was there something that was supposed to be
>> removed?
> 
> If you really used the standard GUI upgrader, it should have removed
> unneeded packages automatically. 

Really?  I suspect it doesn't run an "apt-get clean" (I wouldn't notice,
anyway: besides the fact that release upgrades only happen twice a year, I
use apt-move to clean out the apt archive, weekly), so if you're really
short on disk space, running that is always a good start.
-- 
derek





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