Disk Cleanup

Dexter Ang thepoch at mydestiny.net
Fri Jun 18 06:23:39 UTC 2004


Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun 
Microsystems wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Being sort of a newbie to Linux, I was wondering if someone could post 
> some hints as to what is the best way to free up space on a disk. I find 
> myself  running out of disk space and would like to remove any 
> uncessesary junk left over from upgrades, kernel builds, software 
> installations, etc. Is there a good tutorial somwhere which tells me 
> what I can delete and what not?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

If you've been using yum to update your system, you can run "yum clean" 
to remove any cached rpm packages that's been downloaded. They're stored 
in /var/cache/yum/*/packages/ by default.
dex





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