/var dir 100% used

Banzai_san · n00b Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 50

Hi,
Sorry a noobie qn.
my /var dir is 4.7G and is 100% used.
What dir(s) in my /var can I safely delete ?
Thanks.

nb/ Im using development-sources 2.6.9

SchnulliBulli · n00b Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 3

At least the stuff in /var/tmp/portage/ is save to delete. It's only used during compilation of new packages.

Banzai_san · n00b Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 50

thanks!!!
my /var now is only 7% used.
*PHEW* didnt realize the /var/tmp/portage directory would eat up so much space.

nevynxxx · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:14 am Post subject:

It shouldn't.

Once an emerge compleates it cleans up and leaves only afew bytes in /var/tmp/protage.

Unless you have a few faild emerges, they tend to leave an awful lot behind.

There is a script somewhere that cleans the /tmp directory on start-up. Maybe you could add a line to that to clean up /var/tmp as well?
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Banzai_san · n00b Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 50

hi nevynxxx

Thanks for the explanation.

nevynxxx · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:55 pm Post subject:

Look in /etc/init.d/bootmisc

I'd back it up before you make any changes though!

As for /tmp and /var/tmp

everything in there should be temporary files, I've done rm -rf /tmp/* many times and not had a problem.

It only takes one silly program to give you a problem though. I'd have that boot script clean them and leave it at that. Cleaning them while the system is running could cause problems (especially the kde ones if kde is running).

Make sure you keep the .keep files about.
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tomk · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

Moved from Other Things Gentoo, please see this FAQ:

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