/var is full and yum clean not working to clean up space
Issue
- The
/var
filesystem is at 100% - For example: it is 8 Gib in size, 7.8 Gib of it is in/var/cache/yum
. - I have tried to run
yum clean dbcache
andyum clean metadata
, but the last one has been running for over 18 hours and I see nothing removed. - I executed
yum clean all
successfully, but the/var/cache/yum
still show the same disk usage on cache files.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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