Shawn Walker wrote:
Anil wrote:
I originally did not have the flush-content-cache-on-success set. I
just it to True now. Is it safe to just remove the /var/pkg/download
directory completely? I seem to recall that the next time IPS runs,
it deletes this folder. Just wondering if there would be any reason
why I couldn't just delete this folder now, w/o having to install a
package.
Yes, you can safely delete the contents of this folder, although it
will take a very long time (most likely), and to really see space
savings, you'll have to remove it from all of your boot environments.
Since in most cases a new BE is a clone of some other BE therefore there
will have to be a snapshot which a user won't be able to delete unless
one of the BEs is deleted and /var/pkg/download data will still be
referenced and kept until it happens.
So in order to regain a disk space, in many cases where several
image-update's were performed, a user will basically have to get rid
of most BEs I think (I haven't thought it thru but I think it is the case).
Perhaps /var/pkg should be a dedicated filesystem which would fix the
issue at its root but then I think we don't want to end-up with too many
dedicated file systems with default OS installs...
--
Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com
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