[NTLUG:Discuss] / filling up...

severian@pobox.com severian at pobox.com
Thu Apr 24 22:30:18 CDT 2003


Howdy,
   I use the Red Carpet updater from Ximian.com on Redhat and Mandrake.  It 
frees up the extra space when you boot next time.  Have you rebooted to see 
if up2date does something similar?
God day,
Ralph

In response to the welcome remarks of Wayne Dahl at 05:01 PM 4/24/03 -0500:
>I just checked disk space after having up2date update my packages and
>checked the /var/spool/up2date directory to see if up2date deletes the
>old packages or just adds the new ones and it seems to just add the new
>ones.  Correct?  So, if it just adds them and the new packages run with
>no problems, I can just remove the old packages and clear that disk
>space, right?





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