making space (Re: Minimum disk space requirements?

[Bill Christiansen]

I recovered about 700 MB when I deleted the .deb files from my package
cache which was very handy on my laptop that only has a 4 GB drive so
it's certaily a good idea when your tight on space.


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 04:35:35 +0100, Philippe Landau <lists at mailry.net> wrote:
> > 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
> 
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