[Scottish] Weirdness

Elwell, AD (Andrew) A.D.Elwell at dl.ac.uk
Mon Sep 15 17:23:00 2003


> disk space seemed to be dimishing over time, 32M disappeared this
> afternoon with no files being added etc!?~@~!"! I just rebooted it and
> I've magically got 1.1G free. It's running 2.2.18, with an ext2

sure you didn't do an apt-get upgrade?


andrew@scrapheap:~$ df /
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2               918680    815512     56500  94% /
andrew@scrapheap:~$ sudo apt-get clean
andrew@scrapheap:~$ df /
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2               918680    807080     64932  93% /


man apt-get :-)

esp the "/var/cache/apt/" bit

Andrew