RE: Why is /var so big?

From: Jephthah (jephthahG_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/20/05

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    To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:11:24 -0800

    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.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com
    > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rob Rosenthal
    > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:28 PM
    > To: fedora-list@redhat.com
    > Subject: Why is /var so big?
    >
    >
    > 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@pcp09725103pcs var]# du -sh *
    > 4.0K account
    > 902M cache
    > 2.0M clamav
    > 4.0K db
    > 4.0K dkms
    > 8.0K empty
    > 8.0K gdm
    > 97M lib
    > 4.0K local
    > 20K lock
    > 3.3M log
    > 0 mail
    > 8.0K named
    > 4.0K nis
    > 4.0K opt
    > 4.0K preserve
    > 172K run
    > 936K spool
    > 8.0K state
    > 3.3M tmp
    > 120K webmin
    > 1.2M www
    > 12K yp
    >
    > Please forgive me, as I am a relative newbie, but what the
    > heck is all
    > this stuff? What can I get rid of?
    >
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