Why is /var so big?

[Jephthah]

On Saturday, March 19, 2005 9:34 PM Rob Rosenthal wrote:
> > Are you using yum? Then run a "yum clean all" and I bet you will get
a 
> > lot of space released.
> >
> > Alexander
> 
> That chopped it down from 1000MB to 150MB.  Thanks, Alexander!
> 
> > Without looking into it too deeply, I would guess your /var/cache is

> > previously viewed webpages.  And it's the only thing that is really 
> > causing you grief in /var...  The rest consumes a trival amount.
> >
> > So just do a  "rm -rf /var/cache" to wipe it out.
> >
> > You can make this command an alias and/or add it to your startup 
> > script or even a regularly occuring cron action if you like.
> 
> That chopped it down further to 109 MB.  Thanks, Jephthah!
 

Um, shoot.  I guess you missed my post from about 15 mins ago, where I
said "oops, don't do that"

I was mistaken about what /var/cache contained.  There may or may not
have been important stuff in it.  Hopefully there wasn't.

And at 109 MB, I personally would not worry about it any further.
Obviously you have the room to spare?  I guess if you really wanted to
trim it some more you could but I think I'll refrain from any more of my
"rm -rf" advice  :/

Best of luck



> Now I'm wondering what that 109MB is about and whether I need 
> any of it...
>