[Tfug] my /usr and /var are huge

[bryann]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 07:38 -0700, tfug-request at tfug.org wrote:
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> Date: Tue,  3 Apr 2007 00:30:08 -0700
> From: Brian Murphy <murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] my /usr and /var are huge
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> Quoting "Charles R. Kiss" <charles at kissbrothers.com>:
> > I have like three har d har hard drives; do I just move the data around
> > and repartition on the same drive as / for separate /usr /var partitions
> > (I'll figure out how to do that); or can I just copy the data sets to
> > another drive with /usr /var directories and sym-link from the /
> > partition (that's on a separate drive)? Do I sacrifice speed,  energy,
> > error, all of the above?
> > I have no clue.  I just know my  / partition is getting huge.
> >
> 
This caught my eye and I don't know if you described the disto but:

if you are using a debian based distro for example /var actually
var/cache/apt MAY contain every *.deb you have used to update  and you
may need to change settings as afar as how long to keep them cached
there may be other programs caching there (/var) that you don't need the
to also

Likewise debian based and others have virtually all your programs
in /usr so if you have unneeded programs it can get huge,