How can I clean /var?
My /var was almost full and I use Bleachbit to clean up , Before run Bleachbit it was 77% and after running Bleachbit to clean up , it still 66%
Anyone could help me ?
My /var was almost full and I use Bleachbit to clean up , Before run Bleachbit it was 77% and after running Bleachbit to clean up , it still 66%
Anyone could help me ?
A short command to list 20 directories in /var which are using more space :
$ sudo du -ah /var/* 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -n 20
469M /var/cache 432M /var/lib 199M /var/lib/clamav 196M /var/log 181M /var/cache/PackageKit/27 181M /var/cache/PackageKit 181M /var/cache/dnf 177M /var/log/journal/ace121a524ec4bcabcc145f9b69edbdc 177M /var/log/journal 139M /var/spool 138M /var/spool/abrt 117M /var/lib/rpm 115M /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2018-03-07-20:46:09.575431-2374 114M /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2018-03-07-20:46:09.575431-2374/coredump 113M /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd 102M /var/lib/rpm/Packages 97M /var/cache/PackageKit/27/hawkey 85M /var/cache/PackageKit/27/metadata 61M /var/cache/fedy/jre/jre-8u161-linux-x64.rpm 61M /var/cache/fe
Are you using clamav
? If not, get rid of all the clamav stuff. Are you using PackageKit (Gnome Software)? If you are using dnf
instead (what you should), delete /var/cache/PackageKit/*
and mask (disable) the PackageKit service. You can also delete /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2018-03-07-20:46:09.575431-2374
and the corresponding coredump. As well as /var/cache/fedy/jre/jre-8u161-linux-x64.rpm
.
Also, consider increasing your /var to at least 5 GB. Is there a special reason why you have /var on a separate partition?
Command: sudo rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit/*
... and so on for the others. You may want to make yourself familiar with the sudo and rm command (among others). Also, as long as you don't need it and don't have a clear picture of large each partition should be, and don't separate /var and /tmp and maybe not even swap (use swap file on / instead) - that way you actually waste less space (20-30 gb / incl /var is sufficient in most cases). You want a large /home. Keep the rest together.
A common issue is a lot of stale files in /var/cache/PackageKit
. Try running du -hd2 /var
to find out where the space is being used.
Update: Is your /var a separate partition? You're only using 1.2GB in /var which is very little. Unless it is separate, which is unlikely, it's your root (/) partition that is full.
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4.0K /var/account 16K /var/lost+found 144K /var/log/sssd 4.0K /var/log/cups 4.0K /var/log/gdm 4.0K /var/log/cluster 2.1M /var/log/audit 4.0K /var/log/blivet-gui 169M /var/log/journal 4.0K /var/log/glusterfs 4.0K /var/log/chrony 8.0K /var/log/samba 4.0K /var/log/httpd 12K /var/log/fedy 4.0K /var/log/speech-dispatcher 8.0K /var/log/libvirt 4.8M /var/log/anaconda 4.0K /var/log/ppp 187M /var/log 4.0K /var/nis 4.0K /var/www/html 4.0K /var/www/cgi-bin 12K /var/www 4.0K /var/adm 4.0K /var/preserve 44M /var/cache/cups 4.0K /var/cache/gdm 4.0K /var/cache/foomatic 4.0K /var/cache/abr
8.0K /var/cache/libX11 4.0K /var/cache/krb5rcache 152K /var/cache/ibus 181M /var/cache/dnf 3.9M /var/cache/man 4.0K /var/cache/realmd 8.0K /var/cache/httpd 181M /var/cache/PackageKit 61M /var/cache/fedy 100K /var/cache/ldconfig 144K /var/cache/libvirt 469M /var/cache 8.0K /var/db/sudo 12K /var/db 8.0K /var/tmp/systemd-private-d3e42b24f2b949adaf9010b4e33dec70-fwupd.service-O5l6nV 88K /var/tmp/dnf-popcorn-pht8kc82 8.0K /var/tmp/systemd-private-d3e42b24f2b949adaf9010b4e33dec70-colord.service-UphBtM 4.0K /var/tmp/abrt 8.0K /var/tmp/systemd-private-d3e42b24f2b949adaf9010b4e33dec70-rtkit-daemon
8.0K /var/tmp/systemd-private-d3e42b24f2b949adaf9010b4e33dec70-chronyd.service-E6IOvC 8.0K /var/tmp/systemd-private-d3e42b24f2b949adaf9010b4e33dec70-bluetooth.service-Y9chgX 136K /var/tmp 4.0K /var/opt 20K /var/lib/AccountsService 8.0K /var/lib/geoclue 4.0K /var/lib/hyperv 38M /var/lib/systemd 44K /var/lib/upower 28K /var/lib/iscsi 976K /var/lib/gdm 4.0K /var/lib/corosync 52K /var/lib/NetworkManager 48K /var/lib/flatpak 4.0K /var/lib/dbus 4.0K /var/lib/dav 4.0K /var/lib/tpm 12K /var/lib/gssproxy 16K /var/lib/abrt 8.0K /var/lib/ni 4.0K /var/lib/fwupdate 4.0K /var/lib/openvpn 8.0K /var/lib/
4.0K /var/yp 4.0K /var/games 4.0K /var/gopher 4.0K /var/ftp 4.0K /var/empty/sshd 8.0K /var/empty 12K /var/spool/at 8.0K /var/spool/cups 4.0K /var/spool/lpd 138M /var/spool/abrt 4.0K /var/spool/mail 4.0K /var/spool/cron 16K /var/spool/anacron 4.0K /var/spool/abrt-upload 4.0K /var/spool/plymouth 139M /var/spool 4.0K /var/crash 4.0K /var/local 8.0K /var/kerberos/krb5 12K /var/kerberos 1.2G /var
Asked: 2018-03-07 07:51:48 -0600
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Last updated: Mar 08 '18
What about your log files? Did bleachbit touch those? Run
journalctl --disk-usage
to learn more. (They are located in/var/log/journal
and usually occupy a lot of space).journalctl --disk-usage Archived and active journals take up 168.8M in the file system.
If you think you don't need the log files anymore and if the 170M is significant in your case:
sudo rm -rf /var/log/journal/*