Freeing up Space

stroudt · 08-28-2003, 12:36 PM

I want to free up some space on my RedHat 8.0 server.

Can I safely delete the contents of the var/spool/up2date folder?

trickykid · 08-28-2003, 12:58 PM

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trickykid · 08-28-2003, 12:59 PM

I answered this in your other thread you created first in Linux - General. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=86615

stroudt · 08-28-2003, 01:02 PM

Yes, you answered it and said you were not sure about the up2date folder.

I was hoping someone else was.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

trickykid · 08-28-2003, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by stroudt
Yes, you answered it and said you were not sure about the up2date folder.

I was hoping someone else was.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I was telling you not to double post as that is against our rules and what you agreed to when registering. Lets keep the discussion in the other forum where I first answered. Thanks.

windowsrefund · 08-28-2003, 01:43 PM

personally, I don't use up2date but if I wanted to find the answer to this, I'd just back up the directory, delete the files and see what happens. If a problem came up, it'd be simple enough to correct by just restoring from backup.

Of course, you could always use apt4rpm in which case, you can remove the files from /var/cache/apt by issuing a quick apt-get clean

Best,
Adam

MasterC · 08-28-2003, 02:45 PM

Closing thread for aforementioned reason

Cool