Filling up linux partition

[Terry Polzin]

On Tuesday May 31 2005 16:56, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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 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 ????
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