Disk space went away after upgrade

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> 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.

It can be - especially after a system upgrade, which is why I was wondering
if the upgrade really does do a "clean".  It would make sense, but I don't
think it does.  My apt cache is currently 765MB - that could be significant
on a Mini.
-- 
derek