On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 23:12 -0400, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > but what would delete all the unnecessary files that are > amassed over time? Surely they're not all listed in the "tmp" > folder!..... It depends on what you mean by "unnecessary files." Temporary files created by programs are created in tmp directories, and are supposedly culled by the system some time later, automatically. There are tmpwatch scripts that handle that. And if the tmp directory is a tmpfs (temporary file system) mounted on that point, the contents will be lost after shutdown, and during reboot. Web browser cache files are kept within the browsers directories in your homespace. The browser automatically manages them according to your browser preferences (e.g. if you tell it to use 400 megs of space, it maintains that cache at that level). Packages downloaded by YUM for installing or upgrading are cached within /var/cache/yum (or somewhere similar, if the location has changed since I last manually dealt with it). And YUM can be set to keep the cache, or prune it when finished installing. I believe the current defaults are to remove the cached files as it finished. If you manually download files, such as with your web browser, it's up to you to delete them when finished with. You could semi-automate this by always downloading them to the /tmp directory, so the system will remove them a couple of days after you've finished with them. (Back in my Amiga days, I used to download to, and unpack archives, in the trashcan directory. It was a normal directory, so that you could use it like that, just with a convenient empty trash function triggered from the desktop icon.) -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
