Disk space went away after upgrade

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Wed Mar 11 19:31:14 UTC 2009


Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.

I meant remove as in equivalent to apt-get remove, not apt-get clean.
apt-get clean is certainly harmless and worth a try, though the cache is
never that large.

Matt Flaschen




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