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?
Thank you.
Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/pages/artist_albums.php/167/Doors
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 03:34 pm, 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?
How much space is used up in /var/cache yum ?
May be time to do a 'yum clean all'
On 5/31/05, Terry Polzin fox3ec208@wideopenwest.com wrote:
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 03:34 pm, 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?
How much space is used up in /var/cache yum ?
May be time to do a 'yum clean all'
About 600 megs in there. Lets see what clean all does...
Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/pages/artist_albums.php/321/%20Madonna
http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/pages/artist_albums.php/16/AC-DC On 5/31/05, Terry Polzin fox3ec208@wideopenwest.com wrote:
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 03:34 pm, 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?
How much space is used up in /var/cache yum ?
May be time to do a 'yum clean all'
yum clean packages freed up about half a gig from /var. But with only 600 megs of files in /home I think that 7+ gigs of disk space is redundant! Any ideas for other places to look?
Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/pages/artist_albums.php/16/AC-DC
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.
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
Thanks.
Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/pages/artist_albums.php/445/Sepultura
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.
On 6/1/05, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
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.
Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org
Thanks, I just did that. I think that when I upgrade to FC4 I will do a clean install so that I will be rid of all that bloat!
Dotan Cohen http://english-lyrics.com/el/band.php/445/Sepultura
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 just did a locate up2date and found a lot of places, but none of them seemed to be a cache. What can I do to clean out the up2date cache, as i don't use up2date anymore (I now use yum)?
Dotan Cohen
On Tuesday May 31 2005 16:56, 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 just did a locate up2date and found a lot of places, but none of them seemed to be a cache. What can I do to clean out the up2date cache, as i don't use up2date anymore (I now use yum)?
/var/spool/up2date ????
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:50, Paul Howarth 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.
/srv (not /src - that was a typo) contains site-specific data which is served by this system. For more info see: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/srv.html /srv does exist on FC4
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