I regularly run "yum clean all" as yum tends to cache lots of stuff which isn't really necessary once you have done your patching.
Michael Lightfoot Delivery Engineer Sliced Tech Canberra, Australia -----Original Message----- From: CentOS <centos-boun...@centos.org> On Behalf Of Valeri Galtsev Sent: Wednesday, 5 January 2022 5:42 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to clear out /var/cache? On 1/4/22 1:22 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/31/21 22:15, Fred wrote: >> well, I removed all the files in the tree under >> /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7 but >> left all the directories empty. that got rid of a couple gigs of stuff. >> >> among the remains, the only other big one remaining is: >> >> 2.3G abrt-di >> >> which I won't mess with for now. >> >> I've got 4.2G free, now, so that should run me for quite a while. >> >> Thanks to all of you for your tips! >> >> Fred > > For the record .. I remove things manually from /var/cache/yum/ all > the time (or /var/cache/dnf/ ). It has never caused me any issues. > > I have not removed anything else manually from /var/cache/ > +1 Valeri > <snip> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
