why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Sun Feb 13 15:28:07 UTC 2011


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been running F14 since the day it came out (on LXDE) and I have
> noticed that my / is now as much as 7.3G in size. (My /home is separate
> so these are really system-related files in /). Upon investigation, I
> have come to realize that my /var/spool/cups is almost 4GB.
>
> sudo du -sm /var/spool/cups/
> 3953    /var/spool/cups/
>
> I was wondering why this is so high, and whether there is some setting

That seems abnormal - mine is 63k !
68K	/var/spool/cups

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mike c


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