Filling up linux partition

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/31/05, Paul Howarth <paul at 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 at 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
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