Fedora14 is filling up my HDD without a reason

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Fri May 6 16:03:18 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 11:04 PM, Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote:
>> Hi again:
>>
>
>> /var:
>> /cache 2.3 GB
>
>  As root in a terminal do:
>
>     yum clean all
>
>  Your cache needs a scrub.

du -s /var/cache/yum or du -h /var/cache/yum will tell you how much
space yum is taking up.  Yes, you can brute force cleaning of that
directory using rm but it is best to use the yum clean all command.

James McKenzie


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