Without looking into it too deeply, I would guess your /var/cache is previously viewed webpages. And it's the only thing that is really causing you grief in /var... The rest consumes a trival amount. So just do a "rm -rf /var/cache" to wipe it out. You can make this command an alias and/or add it to your startup script or even a regularly occuring cron action if you like. > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Rosenthal > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:28 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Why is /var so big? > > > After checking out another thread regarding disk space, I checked my > disk usage and found that I had over 1000MB of stuff in /var. > Here is > the output of "du -sh *" from /var: > > [root@pcp09725103pcs var]# du -sh * > 4.0K account > 902M cache > 2.0M clamav > 4.0K db > 4.0K dkms > 8.0K empty > 8.0K gdm > 97M lib > 4.0K local > 20K lock > 3.3M log > 0 mail > 8.0K named > 4.0K nis > 4.0K opt > 4.0K preserve > 172K run > 936K spool > 8.0K state > 3.3M tmp > 120K webmin > 1.2M www > 12K yp > > Please forgive me, as I am a relative newbie, but what the > heck is all > this stuff? What can I get rid of? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
