On Thu, 2021-12-30 at 16:09 -0800, Skylar Thompson wrote: > The FHS specification says that applications using /var/cache should > expect > those data to disappear anytime, so under a strict interpretation it > should > be safe to remove everything. Practically, though, I don't know that > I'd > trust every application to adhere to that, so it might be worth > looking at > what applications are the biggest users of the directory and making > targeted deletions or even application-specific tools to remove the > data > (i.e. "yum clean all"). > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 06:20:15PM -0500, Fred 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. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > It almost always filled up with leftover cruft from yum... Run "yum clean all" should clear up a large chunk of your space. Jim --