On 5/31/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:34 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Hi all, > > I see that I have about 2 gigs of my 10 gig partition left. I went > > hunting for bloat and fund that /var is almost 2 gigs and /usr is > > almost 4! Does this sound reasonable for a desktop installation? I > > also found that /selinux 0 bytes big despite the fact that it does > > contain files and folders. And there is a /srv directory that is > > empty, along with /proc that is about 500 megs. What are /src and > > /proc? Should /usr and /var be so big? > > /proc (probably /selinux too) is a virtual filesystem and takes no > space. > > /var may be full of update packages if you use yum and don't > periodically do a "yum clean packages", or if you use up2date and don't > clear out the up2date cache directory from time to time. > > I've no idea what /src is; I don't have one on any system here. > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > I just did a locate up2date and found a lot of places, but none of them seemed to be a cache. What can I do to clean out the up2date cache, as i don't use up2date anymore (I now use yum)? Dotan Cohen
