Why is /var so big?

Rob Rosenthal robrosenthal1 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 20 05:33:37 UTC 2005


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

That chopped it down from 1000MB to 150MB.  Thanks, Alexander!

> Without looking into it too deeply, I would guess your /var/cache is
> previously viewed webpages.  And it's the only thing that is really
> causing you grief in /var...  The rest consumes a trival amount.
>
> So just do a  "rm -rf /var/cache" to wipe it out.
>
> You can make this command an alias and/or add it to your startup script
> or even a regularly occuring cron action if you like.

That chopped it down further to 109 MB.  Thanks, Jephthah!

Now I'm wondering what that 109MB is about and whether I need any of it...




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