dnf clean all doesn't clean all

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...ystem-upgrade/ doesn't seem to say anything about cleaning up the cache created by dnf system-upgrade. On F31 I have a lot of old stuff in /var/lib/dnf/, which also still contains all the packages from the upgrade from F30 to F31RC 3 weeks ago:

# pwd
/var/lib/dnf/
# ls -l
total 8928
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    1024 Nov 15  2018 history
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4837376 Nov 11 12:17 history.sqlite
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   32768 Nov 11 12:17 history.sqlite-shm
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4152992 Nov 11 12:17 history.sqlite-wal
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root    3072 Oct 21 00:16 system-upgrade
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   78922 Oct 21 00:16 system-upgrade.json
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   31670 Apr  8  2015 transaction-all.2015-04-08.22:20.43
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       0 Apr  8  2015 transaction-done.2015-04-08.22:20.43
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root    1024 Feb 12  2018 yumdb
# du -s -d1 -h .
13M     ./history
955M    ./system-upgrade
5.0M    ./yumdb
981M    .
# pwd
/var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade/
# du -s -d2 -h .
704K    ./rpmfusion-nonfree-c253272f7b309f17/packages
387M    ./updates-testing-9640951d8a5b54c9/packages
17K     ./rpmfusion-free-058b175644bc1430/packages
373M    ./fedora-3589ee8a7ee1691d/packages

Yum isn't even installed. There's no telling which man page might address this, since there isn't one for system-upgrade. What's the right way to clean this up and recover almost 1G of disk space?

Yum isn't even installed. There's no telling which man page might address this, since there isn't one for system-upgrade. What's the right way to clean this up and recover almost 1G of disk space?

You can try this out:
Update Fedora Linux using the terminal dnf command

Type the following dnf command and sudo command:
sudo dnf update

More here:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/update...tware-patches/

Originally Posted by PECONET009 More here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/update...tware-patches/

That's an obsolete page. Dnf update has been superceded by dnf upgrade. The system here is up-to-date. It's simply polluted by unnecessary and obsolete files wasting disk space.

Hi MrMazda,

I'm not sure about the recent-ness of this page, but here is a link that spoke of Fedora 21 (I know it is old - but, I'm looking at the stuff written below):

https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showt...-dnf-clean-all

It suggests using: (You'll probably have to research to see if this is still valid)

dnf clean all --enablerepo=\*

And there is a suggestion to simply remove:

/var/cache/dnf

- as it says that this is regenerated by dnf.

Let me know, if you find that these suggestions work...