On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 23:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 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 used to use up2date, but now I use yum. Can I just clean out > /var/cache? I have the following directries in there: > alchemist, apt, gstreamer-0.8, man, mod_proxy, samba, yum No, leave them alone. You can clean out the up2date cache by doing: # rm -rf /var/spool/up2date/* This will leave an empty directory /var/spool/up2date, which is the state up2date would be in if it had just been installed. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
