Any of the subdirs of /var/tmp can have their contents, but not the directories themselves deleted, and /tmp can have it's contents deleted, although you shouldnt do it while things are running that may be using files within those dirs, apache, portage etc....Chris Boot wrote:
Indeed, as long as your not compiling (since it will be using /var/tmp/ then) you can remove the entire directory (/var/tmp) contents, perhaps even the entire directory but I'm not sure if it automatically recreates /var/tmpHi,
On 25 Jan 2005, at 18:09, Dave Nebinger wrote:
Feel free to whack at will (assuming there's no emerge actively running).
/var/tmp/portage is where portage builds packages; once their built and installed the contents are not needed.
Don't whack the /var/tmp/portage directory itself, just the contents.
No, you can whack the whole directory. Probably even the whole contents of /var/tmp if you're careful.
-----Original Message----- From: raptor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage ?
I see that my /var/tmp/portage is about 500 MB, can I erase its contents
or there
is something that is important there ?
tia
Chris
Doing "rm -rf /var/tmp/*" won't give any problems (I did it all the time on my laptop, not anymore since my partition is bigger now ;))
Any program that relies on something in one of the /*tmp dirs staying around for any indefinite amount of time is broken badly :)
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