well, I removed all the files in the tree under /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7 but left all the directories empty. that got rid of a couple gigs of stuff.
among the remains, the only other big one remaining is:
2.3G abrt-di
which I won't mess with for now.
I've got 4.2G free, now, so that should run me for quite a while.
Thanks to all of you for your tips!
Fred
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 10:38 AM Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 18:21, Fred fred.fredex@gmail.com wrote:
Is it safe to just remove files from /var/cache on a running system, or
is
there a correct procedure for doing that?
Mine has hit over 3 gigs, making it one of the larger directories in /, which is running low on space. I've hit all the low-hanging fruit I can find and now I come to things like /var/cache, and I don't know what to
do
about such.
The first step is to find out what is using it. It is probably dnf but could be other utilities which are trying and failing to do something. I start off with
$ sudo -i # cd /var/cache # du -sch | sort -h 0 ./PackageKit 0 ./app-info 0 ./bpf 0 ./fwupd 0 ./httpd 0 ./krb5rcache 0 ./libX11 0 ./libvirt 0 ./private 0 ./realmd 36K ./ldconfig 1.7M ./man 29M ./dnf 31M total while on a different system: 4.0K ./abrt-di 4.0K ./bpf 4.0K ./foomatic 4.0K ./krb5rcache 4.0K ./private 4.0K ./realmd 8.0K ./httpd 8.0K ./libX11 8.0K ./powertop 96K ./ldconfig 300K ./ibus 520K ./libvirt 3.5M ./man 4.2M ./fwupd 38M ./app-info 59M ./cups 213M ./PackageKit 332M ./dnf 2.1G ./mock 2.7G totalAs others have noted, dnf is probably the most used tool here, but it could be mock or some other utility (I had cups because I misconfigured something once)
dnf is a tricky tool because sometimes a command will create a 'not-so-temporary' cached tree which can't be cleaned because `dnf clean all` doesn't know it. What I do is a `dnf clean all` and then go into /var/cache/dnf and see what else might be still there. In my case I found a large trove of packages from when I had enabled testing at one point and then turned it off before doing a clean. I normally just delete all the directories and do a `dnf update` to see if it reports errors.
Hope this helps.
Thanks in advance!
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