Tim wrote:
James Wilkinson wrote:
One of the big users of disk space is yum's cache. The command
yum clean packages will delete the cache of packages that yum has
downloaded (normally it stores a copy of everything it downloads). The
command yum clean all deletes everything yum has deleted, which means
it will have to re-download headers next time you do a yum update.
Which may take a very long time, and the obvious remedy is to not do
that, but manually delete the RPMs, leaving the headers alone, in
the /var/cache/yum/name-of-repo/packages/ directories.
Or simply do "yum clean packages", which deletes the rpms but not the
metadata (headers).
Paul.
