Root partition full...how should I free up space?

[Faizan Kazi]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:50 AM, David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 May 2009 18:03:21 -0700
> Robert Swanson <mapa-kettle at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/
>
> 'sudo apt-get clean' removes everything in archives and in
> archives/partial.
>
faizan at faizan-jaunty:~$ sudo du -h /var/cache/
36M    /var/cache/

why do i remember telling synaptic not to store/cache downloaded debs? i
couldnt find the option again... maybe i was just dreaming... anyways...
cache is small :)


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Robert Swanson <mapa-kettle at shaw.ca> wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 May 2009 08:59, Brian McKee wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Faizan Kazi <faizan.s.kazi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> One possible source of the problem of a full / partition can be a large
> update
> that has failed, particularly if you have tried to do the update more than
> once.  This just happened to me 3 weeks ago, and it was necessary for me to
> find where the files were copied and delete them.
>        When this was done, my / partition went from 98% back down to 38%.
>  I can't
> specifically remember in which directory the files were located, and that
> is
> my bad because I knew I wanted to remember what I did for the next time.
>        I am using KDE, and I think I solved the problem by using the Adept
> updater.
> ( I'll write it down the next time I can assure you! )
>
> Bob
>

Please let me know if you remember how to fix that! thanks!! (cuz I have
often been unable to complete installs cuz the electricity goes often in
this third world country i live in :s)



On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Nickolai Toupikov <
nickolai.toupikov at deri.org> wrote:

> Nickolai Toupikov wrote:
> Oops. sorry. if you're using gnome - use baobab. it should already be
> installed
> Both would work but we should keep up consistency, right :D
> Sorry for the double post
> Nickolai
>
Thanks Nickolai! I'll try that and get back to you :)

Regards,
Faizan
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