On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 23:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 5/31/05, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:34 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Hi all, I see that I have about 2 gigs of my 10 gig partition left. I went hunting for bloat and fund that /var is almost 2 gigs and /usr is almost 4! Does this sound reasonable for a desktop installation? I also found that /selinux 0 bytes big despite the fact that it does contain files and folders. And there is a /srv directory that is empty, along with /proc that is about 500 megs. What are /src and /proc? Should /usr and /var be so big?
/proc (probably /selinux too) is a virtual filesystem and takes no space.
/var may be full of update packages if you use yum and don't periodically do a "yum clean packages", or if you use up2date and don't clear out the up2date cache directory from time to time.
I've no idea what /src is; I don't have one on any system here.
Paul.
Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org
I used to use up2date, but now I use yum. Can I just clean out /var/cache? I have the following directries in there: alchemist, apt, gstreamer-0.8, man, mod_proxy, samba, yum
No, leave them alone.
You can clean out the up2date cache by doing:
# rm -rf /var/spool/up2date/*
This will leave an empty directory /var/spool/up2date, which is the state up2date would be in if it had just been installed.
Paul.