Subj : Re: Cleaning up stale logs in Bookworm
To   : All
From : bp@www.zefox.net
Date : Mon Sep 15 2025 07:35:27

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:04:50 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:
> 
>> Evidently I've just added too many packages.
> 
> One occasional problem I had on my previous laptop was it would fill up 
> the root partition every now and then with old cached package files. These 
> are normally not needed after the package is actually installed.
> 
> Check your disk usage for this cache with
> 
>     du -ks /var/cache/apt/archives/
> 
> and see if it looks excessive. Anything you delete from there should be 
> automatically downloadable again if it’s needed. ;)

Bingo! It's over one GB. Not my whole problem, but a big chunk of it.

Thank you!

bob prohaska


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