On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:50, Paul Howarth 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. /srv (not /src - that was a typo) contains site-specific data which is served by this system. For more info see: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/srv.html /srv does exist on FC4 -- Paul Almquist paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Eau Claire, WI USA
