Nov 21, 2013 · 6 The directory /tmp means temporary. This directory stores temporary data. You don't need to delete anything from it, the data contained in it gets deleted automatically after every reboot. …

Jun 11, 2015 · I would try to clean the repository of downloaded packages. Either of these commands (see man apt-get). apt-get autoclean apt-get clean If you don't have /tmp on tmpfs, you may want to …

18 The most powerful of all commands to clean the cache for command line users is of course sudo apt clean Which will also delete all the cached files.

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18 Try the below command to remove temp files, sudo rm -rf /tmp/* apt-get autoremove will remove automatically all unused packages.

Jan 9, 2011 · So systemd-tmpfiles-clean runs once per day, and systemd-tmpfiles-setup runs once per boot. The files it cleans can be extended using /etc/tmpfiles.d (mentioned in another answer). It's …

Dec 25, 2013 · Linux distributions usually store their temporary files in /tmp. Ubuntu does so too, so the temporary files are in /tmp, but there is no need to empty them manually, because it is emptied on …

May 5, 2020 · 2 I have the following issue: I am using a remote Ubuntu server to run applications / scripts which generate many temp files. They are deleted only when I reboot the system which is not …

For various reasons, I want to clean up these tmp files asap after the process dies, preferably instantly. The problem is that in many cases, the proc are terminated irregularly; hence the process itself …

Mar 20, 2017 · Closed 5 years ago. When I get the message for a Software Update and click to install I get a message "Insufficienct space" telling me to empty trash and remove temporary files using sudo …