On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 10:16:34AM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I have directory > /var/log/journal which seems large: > 1646960 > What type of file system are you using? ext? or xfs or ?? I ask as ext expands its directories in 4K chunks and the sizes you give above and below are not 4K multiples. Are you sure those are not inode numbers (ls -i)? If they are sizes, the total size of those 40+ directories is just 61MB, about 0.5% of a small, 10GB file system. It may not be worth worrying about recovering the space. On some file systems directories, once expanded, never contract. In that case, the "cure" is to create a new temporary directory (eg. /var.new). Set the ownership and permissions of /var.new to match /var (don't forget SELinux and extended attribute properties). Move the data to the new directory (mv /var/* /var.new). Don't forget any "dot" files/directories. Rename /var to /var.old, rename /var.new to /var. When satisfied, repeat 40 times for the large subdirectories and remove the empty old directories. This is best done from a boot off of external media and mounting the hard disk filesystems under the portable medium. Often /a is a directory provided for this. Jon > but it is even worst for /var/cache: 14338744 > I gives the largest sub directories: > > 100602 /var/cache/PackageKit/hawkey > 104278 /var/cache/PackageKit/25/hawkey > 105988 /var/cache/yum/x86_64/21/fedora/gen > 112622 /var/cache/yum/x86_64/22/fedora/gen ... > 6548048 /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata/updates > 7287012 /var/cache/PackageKit/24/metadata > 7424876 /var/cache/PackageKit/24 > 10930952 /var/cache/PackageKit > > > How can I clean this? > > Thank. > > =========================================================================== > Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre@xxxxxxx > Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | > Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | > Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 > 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France > =========================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> End of included message <<< -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
