Hi,
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:27:24 +0200
Esteban L <este...@little-beak.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got warning message that "/var is almost full." Knowing that being
> full on a hard drive is never good, I want to resolve this.
>
> >From command line: /var# du -h --max-depth=1
> 1.8G ./lib
> 4.0K ./local
> 2.7M ./tmp
> 16K ./lost+found
> 44K ./snap
> 6.3G ./cache
> 4.0K ./opt
> 56K ./spool
> 4.0K ./mail
> 8.2M ./backups
> 139M ./log
> 8.2G .
did you try "apt-get clean"?
It looks like the 6.3G in ./cache might be lots of downloaded .deb
packages stored in /var/cache/apt/archives
Regards
Michael
>
> So, my backups seems to be causing the main issue, followed closely by
> the cache.
>
> Here is what my backups look like: ls -l
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153600 Apr 30 06:59 alternatives.tar.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9980 Apr 27 00:08 alternatives.tar.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9978 Apr 20 00:08 alternatives.tar.2.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9980 Mar 29 03:53 alternatives.tar.3.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9985 Mar 27 00:08 alternatives.tar.4.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9973 Mar 24 00:08 alternatives.tar.5.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9908 Mar 15 11:50 alternatives.tar.6.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175620 Apr 29 01:11 apt.extended_states.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18347 Apr 28 22:35 apt.extended_states.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18312 Apr 27 23:56 apt.extended_states.2.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18256 Feb 19 08:42 apt.extended_states.3.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18243 Jan 20 15:23 apt.extended_states.4.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18366 Jan 13 22:48 apt.extended_states.5.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18351 Jan 12 07:40 apt.extended_states.6.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 678 Sep 6 2018 dpkg.diversions.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271 Sep 6 2018 dpkg.diversions.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271 Sep 6 2018 dpkg.diversions.2.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271 Sep 6 2018 dpkg.diversions.3.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271 Sep 6 2018 dpkg.diversions.4.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271 Sep 6 2018 dpkg.diversions.5.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 271 Sep 6 2018 dpkg.diversions.6.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239 Nov 12 02:44 dpkg.statoverride.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 Nov 12 02:44 dpkg.statoverride.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 Nov 12 02:44 dpkg.statoverride.2.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 Nov 12 02:44 dpkg.statoverride.3.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 Nov 12 02:44 dpkg.statoverride.4.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 Nov 12 02:44 dpkg.statoverride.5.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 Nov 12 02:44 dpkg.statoverride.6.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3002519 Apr 30 06:55 dpkg.status.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 829132 Apr 28 22:36 dpkg.status.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 824705 Apr 27 23:56 dpkg.status.2.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 820759 Apr 26 23:23 dpkg.status.3.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 820758 Apr 19 23:06 dpkg.status.4.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 820758 Apr 19 23:06 dpkg.status.5.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 820758 Apr 19 23:06 dpkg.status.6.gz
> -rw------- 1 root root 991 Apr 28 22:35 group.bak
> -rw------- 1 root shadow 833 Apr 28 22:35 gshadow.bak
> -rw------- 1 root root 2280 Apr 28 22:35 passwd.bak
> -rw------- 1 root shadow 1445 Apr 28 22:35 shadow.bak
>
>
> Here is my cache: du -h --max-depth=1
> 6.7M ./locate
> 159M ./postgresql
> 8.0K ./PackageKit
> 8.0K ./anthy
> 4.0K ./fonts
> 4.0K ./apparmor
> 6.5M ./debconf
> 30M ./cracklib
> 6.1G ./apt
> 328K ./cups
> 132K ./dictionaries-common
> 1.3M ./snapd
> 4.0K ./realmd
> 1.7M ./app-info
> 4.1M ./man
> 88K ./ldconfig
> 4.0K ./gdm
> 11M ./fontconfig
> 6.3G .
>
> So, from this, I can gather that my /var/cache/apt and
> /var/backups/(mostly dpkg.status.#.gz) are hogging all my space.
>
> I cleaned the cache with: sudo apt-get clean
>
> and, now my cache is pretty good now.
>
> I am still curious, what purpose (what is safe to remove) the
> /var/backups play. Unfortunately, the keyword "backups" brings up a lot
> of unrelated topics.
>
> Any tips would be appreciated.
>
>
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