(Not to be a spelling nazi, but, ...) On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > Since you (wisely) use yum for package installation/removal, you > shouldn't touch /var or /user directly but check which package owns it /usr > and consider removing the package, e.g. > [Aradnix: > $ rpm -qf /var/huge-file So, cd /var sudo du -hs * | more # and you see that /var/lib , /var/spool , /var/tmp , and /var/log # (among others?) have a lot of stuff in them. sudo du hs lib/* spool/* | more # texmf may show up as a big package rpm -qf /var/lib/texmf rpm -qf /var/lib/texmf yum info texlive-texmf yum info texlive # And maybe you decide you don't need texlive > bigpackage-2.4.3-fc14.x86_64 > $ sudo yum erase bigpackage sudo rpm erase texlive # and so forth, for various packages tha you decide you don't need. # yum will tell you the dependencies, so you're not flying entirely blind. # rpm -q also works in the /usr subdirectories # You may want to take note of the size of the mail and abrt spools. # Both the abrt notifier and the mail agent should allow you to delete old # messaegs you no longer need.] >> Genes told me that I need to scrub my cache, that's right, but how? > > You already did that using "yum clean all". Note that "yum clean > packages" would probably have freed almost as much space without > removing yum metadata, which is why I suggested it earlier. Good point. I personally like to avoid stale metadata, so I tend not to think beyond the "all" option, but the metadata will be necessary as soon as Aradnix needs to do even a yum info, so it's space that's not really freed even if it's freed. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
