On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:38:42PM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a
> newbie here.
>
> Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB
> /var partition, which always used to be plenty, but archives is now eating
> up 1.05 GB, so I'll have to move (or preferably delete) it.
>
> Any advice, please?
I don't have anything under /var/archives, but maybe the following
snippets from apt-get(1) will help:
clean
clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files.
It removes everything but the lock file from
/var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. When
APT is used as a dselect(8) method, clean is run automatically.
Those who do not use dselect will likely want to run apt-get clean
from time to time to free up disk space.
autoclean
Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved
package files. The difference is that it only removes package files
that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This
allows a cache to be maintained over a long period without it
growing out of control. The configuration option
APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from being
erased if it is set to off.
Running apt-get clean will likely reduce the stuff cached in your /var
partition.
Ken
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