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
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
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
--On Friday, December 31, 2021 11:15 PM -0500 Fred
wrote:
among the remains, the only other big one remaining is:
2.3G abrt-di
which I won't mess with for now.
That directory is owned by the abrt-addon-ccpp package, which is involved
with crash dump analysis. So I'd guess it's full of
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
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 18:21, Fred wrote:
> Is it safe to just remove files from /var/cache on a running system, or is
> there a correct procedure for doing that?
>
> Mine has hit over 3 gigs, making it one of the larger directories in /,
> which is running low on space. I've hit all the
On Thu, 2021-12-30 at 16:09 -0800, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> The FHS specification says that applications using /var/cache should
> expect
> those data to disappear anytime, so under a strict interpretation it
> should
> be safe to remove everything. Practically, though, I don't know that
> I'd
>
Il Ven 31 Dic 2021, 03:39 Fred ha scritto:
[snip]
>
>
> > --On Thursday, December 30, 2021 6:20 PM -0500 Fred <
> fred.fre...@gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Mine has hit over 3 gigs, making it one of the larger directories in /,
> > > which is running low on space. I've hit all the
On 12/30/2021 6:39 PM, Fred wrote:
but I still don't know the proper way to clear out a lot of this stuff. I
certainly don't want to hose my system.
My next step, on finding a candidate pig, would be to use "rpm -qf" to
identify which package owns the pig, and then look at how to clean that
Skylar: that's more or less what I've been doing, looking for huge things
in /.
Kenneth: the latest version of kdirstat appears to now be named qdirstat,
no kde bits required. it is certainly a handy way to quickly find the disk
space sinks. Thanks for the pointer.
but I still don't know the
--On Thursday, December 30, 2021 6:20 PM -0500 Fred
wrote:
Mine has hit over 3 gigs, making it one of the larger directories in /,
which is running low on space. I've hit all the low-hanging fruit I can
find and now I come to things like /var/cache, and I don't know what to do
about such.
The FHS specification says that applications using /var/cache should expect
those data to disappear anytime, so under a strict interpretation it should
be safe to remove everything. Practically, though, I don't know that I'd
trust every application to adhere to that, so it might be worth looking
Is it safe to just remove files from /var/cache on a running system, or is
there a correct procedure for doing that?
Mine has hit over 3 gigs, making it one of the larger directories in /,
which is running low on space. I've hit all the low-hanging fruit I can
find and now I come to things like
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