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nickburns
November 2nd, 2007, 06:02 AM
I recently looked at my raid storage box that has been running faithfully in the corner, and to my surprise it was running Dapper on it. So I took some time today and upgraded it.

Dapper --> Edgy --> Feisty --> Gusty

Everything went smooth as can be, except:

My Hard drive space on / went from 831 mb to 1.9 gigs. How to I clean this back up?

FuturePilot
November 2nd, 2007, 06:07 AM
sudo apt-get clean
That clears out your apt archive where your probably have tons of packages from the upgrade.

Tundro Walker
November 3rd, 2007, 05:40 PM
The upgrades also tend to "reset" you to the default Ubuntu load-out. So, if you previously took the time to uninstall some stuff, it may have been loaded back on (or more stuff may have been added).

(Well, that's the case with the desktop distro...if you're using the server distro, it might not be the case, but worth checking out.)

Gremlinzzz
November 3rd, 2007, 05:58 PM
I use this command
sudo apt-get autoremove

nickburns
November 3rd, 2007, 06:20 PM
autoclean took of about 400 megs (down to 1.5 gig)

clean took another 200 megs(down to 1.3 gigs)

Not quite the 800 megs I started with. But close enough... I guess.