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

[Ian Sterling]

I'm tellin' ya - before I saw Patrick do the Alt-Fx trick, I never
knew about the multiple TTYs.  They can be a life saver.

Matt and Patrick both gave you the answer to your problem there.
Debian's good about saving the packages, but occasionally you want to
go remove them.  Once you've removed the apt packages, if you need
more space, you can easily remove anything in /tmp or /var/tmp (your
mileage may vary with this though) since those two directories are
*supposed* to be for temporary files.  (In other words, you can delete
them with no consequence to the system)

Just my 2c worth.

--Ian...

On 11/7/06, Matt R Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
> apt-get saves packages it's already downloaded in case you have to
> fiddle with them and remove / reinstall to get them functioning right,
> or if you want to use them on other machines. apt-get clean deletes
> everything in the repository and apt-get auto-clean deletes everything
> it thinks you have installed already. For me, auto-clean does not seem
> to work so well so I do not really recommend it.
>
> HTH,
> Matt
>
> On 11/7/06, Patrick Bennett <stnick at bennettbungalow.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
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