On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 00:52 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
Cleans packages and headers downloaded ... the headers will be downloaded again the next time you run yum update
Thank you. I hope that will help alleviate the problem.
One further question, though. Is this situation regulated to just YUM, or is it possible that I have other programs or processes filling up var or otherwise consuming hard drive space? Is there some sort of general cleaning I should be doing with Linux to keep my hard drive from filling with unecessary data?
Well if you run the up2date tool it will fill up /var/spool/up2date with cached headers and packages that have been downloaded (if it's set to keep packages after installation).
Other than that there is not much "unnecessary" files that build up in var in a normal workstation install. In /var/log is where the log files go, those get rotated out and then deleted automatically.
If you su to root and cd to /var and try "du -hs *" it will tell you where under /var to look to find anything that is taking up of space.
Paul