Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:24:20PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote: > There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is it safe > to get rid of the contents of the whole file. It takes up 57% of the > drive.
Do not go deleting files in /var; you don't know enough about their purpose to do that safely. There are tools you can use to safely delete things. It is safe to clear apt-get's cache with: $ sudo apt-get clean If you still need to find space after that, show us where it's all gone. The command line tool "ncdu" can be helpful but if you don't have it then a combination of "du" and "sort" will be useful, e.g: $ sudo du -xh /var | sort -rh | head -25 (top 25 largest directories in /var with human-readable units.) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
