I have fedora 16 64 bit and it's using 7.0gb of space. In your situation, i'd be looking for a massive core dump file or a runaway log file. This tutorial explains how to clean yum.
My hdd is 14gb total.
The repodata there gets quite large. Inside this folder below files. Please let me know what file i can delete from the system. Files are then placed in /var/tmp/yum [user]*/.
In this section, we’ll learn different. If you want to install nginx, varnish, and lots of useful. The dnf package manager, like yum, retains a cache of downloaded package files and metadata in the /var/cache/dnf directory by default. Focus first on any subdirectory that has a big number associated with it's content, like.
So is there a simple rule for which other files underneath /var/cache/yum can be manually deleted, to save.
/var/cache/yum and /var/lib/rpm are using 223mb and 125mb respectively and growing. I searched for any file that is bigger 15m. While yum is a powerful tool for managing packages and dependencies, the utility sometimes caches a lot of data, taking up disk space. We have by far the largest rpm repository with nginx module packages and vmods for varnish.
My /var files system is at 98%.
