Hi All

perhaps someone can shed some ligt on this one for me

i am running FC3 and windows XP

both OS's have a 30 gig partition

it would appear that my FC3 is taking up 26.4 gig

i have checked and i have less than 500 meg in my home file.

I was wondering why its so big and how i can slim it down a bit??

I have been keeping upto date with yum (could it be keeping older versions or some sort of cashe?)

i do use a windows machine for alot of file storage which is streamed to my FC3 box, it couldn't be chashine anything could it?

please help its getting so bad that i wont even be able to download mail soon

thanks

Dan

This is wonderful news (sarcasm implied). One of the reasons I've been excited about Linux is to slim down these massively obese windows software applications. In fact, just today I burned the FC3 ISO to a DVD. Hmm... Perhaps my journey hasn't even begun yet.

Phase2

Well I guess it depends on what packages you selected when fc3 was installed. Although I have a machine with fc3 with a 10gb harddrive which right now is reading 4gb free... (granted I dont have everything under the sun installed)

check out your /var/cache/yum, how big is that?

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
36G 3.0G 31G 9% /
/dev/hda1 99M 8.8M 85M 10% /boot
none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm

I guess I could have installed a lot less software for FC3 on my box
but is this bloated?

you need to clear the cache of yum as it keeps all the packages that it downloads

the default cache folder in yum is /var/cache/yum

I have never known a linux system to occupy that amount of space just from installed packages. Cleaning up files in various cache directories may help out, but it could be a problem elsewhere.

Even the FC3 “install everything” option only uses 7-8GB.

Poke around the directories and see where all the extra stuff is. Most of the FC3 related stuff should be in /usr. On one of my fully updated “install everything” systems, /usr = 6 GB, and that includes a lot of nonstandard stuff.

Yea my fedora is getting kind of Fat too, its about time to use that yum clean command, i didnt know that existed, I am used to my BSD box that never gets bloated