Re: freeing up some space
c. marlow wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:07:02 -0600
> Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:59 PM Andrew M.A. Cater
> > <amacater@einval.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:25:27PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
> > > wrote:
> > > > So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and
> > > which seems to include many versions of the same package, some of
> > > them many years old, going all the way back to 2013. I guess I've
> > > been running debian a little longer than I'd thought...
>
> Wow, That's amazing! So that means you've only done in place upgrade
> since 2013 with no nuke and pave's?
That should not be considered amazing. My house server has an continuous
history (via drive swaps, hardware upgrades, and complete transplants)
back to 2004, when a power-supply problem killed everything and
it turned out my backups had rotted.
-dsr-
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