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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>*******AN UPDATE******<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve checked again and the size
of /var/satellite has actually decreased. It took some time. I think spacewalk
was deleting them in background. However the size of the DB remained the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Robert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Zakrocki, Robert
[mailto:Robert.Zakrocki.1@city.ac.uk] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Spacewalk-list] Removing Packages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello List,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have a Spacewalk 1.4 running on Redhat 5.6 which manages
fedora 15 clients. Apart of few workarounds with fedora 15 everything works
fine. However I have a question about removing packages (or bringing down sizes
of /var/satellite and /opt/oracle).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The directory /opt/oracle has grown nearly to 10GB which is
97% in my case (I run /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync on all channels). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I tried to remove nearly 4000 packages from update repository
but the size of /opt/oracle has not decreased nor the size of /var/satellite
(where all packages are stored). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I thought that removing packages would bring down the size
of database as well as as the size of /var/satellite. Can you tell me if there
is a way to decrease the size of either database or /var/satellite?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Robert<o:p></o:p></p>
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