Why is /var so big?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 20.03.2005 schrieb Rob Rosenthal um 4:28:

> After checking out another thread regarding disk space, I checked my 
> disk usage and found that I had over 1000MB of stuff in /var.  Here is 
> the output of "du -sh *" from /var:
> 
> [root at pcp09725103pcs var]# du -sh *

> 902M    cache
  ^^^^^^

> Please forgive me, as I am a relative newbie, but what the heck is all 
> this stuff?  What can I get rid of?

Are you using yum? Then run a "yum clean all" and I bet you will get a
lot of space released.

Alexander


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