Areas that can be cleared out on Redhat Machine

Barry Brimer lists at brimer.org
Wed Oct 25 13:40:39 UTC 2006


> I have a Redhat machine which is getting to full capacity on the / root
> partition. I have removed things in /var/log but it did not really clear
> allot of space. Could someone tell me what other areas i can look at
> clearing out?

Depending on your up2date configuration, you may have a fair amount of 
data in /var/spool/up2date and /var/spool/repackage .. I would clear out 
the /var/spool/repackage if you have not had any problems with recent 
upgrades, and clear out the .rpm files in /var/spool/up2date.

Barry




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