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delete old backups

Asked by dan

my sys says I have 13gb of backups in var file.( I dont have permission to delete them) all my data has been copied to a slave disk, I want this space back can I safely get rid of them? how?
thanks

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Christoph Langner (chrissss) said : 		#1

Where are these backups? Who or what made this backups?

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Best Ben Klein (kleinb1) said : 		#2

If you can safely get rid of them, then you would have to use sudo, as in
sudo rm <files>

To do so from a graphical interface, use
gksudo nautilus

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dan (erhard12551) said : 		#3

Thanks Ben Klein, that solved my question.