[CVALE] Out of disk space...Up a creek with no paddle?

[Patrick Bennett]

Try logging into a console / command line interface (from gnome do 
ctrl-alt-f1 for instance) and getting to a root prompt (you may have to 
log in as a standard user than do "su" to get root access). Then issue 
the commands: "apt-get clean" and "apt-get auto-clean".... You may find 
that this clears up a buttload of hard drive space. What it does is 
delete the apt packages cache, or something along those lines (see man 
apt-get for more info).

-Patrick

Landon Blake wrote:
>
> I’ve been using the automatic update tool on Debian gleefully the past 
> few months. (This is on my Linux box at work, which has a high-speed 
> internet connection.)
>
> I was in the middle of an update today when the Linux box stalled. I 
> rebooted only to discover that I could no longer log into my GNOME 
> deskop. When I checked the error log it said something about running 
> out of room on the device. I did a little snooping and found out 
> through the command line that I don’t have any more free space in my 
> root partition.
>
> I do still have some free space on other partitions. Can I move 
> reapportion the free space between partitions without wiping the hard 
> drive, or have I just really put myself in a mess?
>
> Landon
>
>
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