making space (Re: Minimum disk space requirements?

[Philippe Landau]

> I filed this bug:
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2757
 > The installation of several packages seemed to fail silently
 > as the free disk space on my 2.1 Gig hard drive fell to zero.
is this still the case or are there warnings given now ?

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:35:39PM -0600, azz wrote:
>>What if instead of just copying all the debs to a local harddrive, the
>>installer would
>>-Install the base system
>>-Check the available disk space for the local deb archive (On whatever
>>partition) before just copying the packages. ...]
> We may consider doing something like this for Hoary, yes.
what does this mean in practice ?

is there an inconvenience from deleting all files in
/var/cache/apt/archives/
(all .deb (installer) files) ?

what is the best way to see the biggest folders
and thus find big files hiding inside ?

kind regards     philippe