>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 11:00 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running SuSE SLES10-SP1. I notice some high space utilization in the > following files: > > /var/lib/zypp/cache/* > /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db > > I think these files were created while playing with novell-zmd. I use YUP > and a local YUM server to retrieve my updates and then use YaST2 Online > Updates pointing to my YUM server. The question is: > > Do I still need these files and/or directory entries? Can I safely delete > them? As always, thanks.
Yes. You can delete them, and they'll be recreated by zmd, chewing up a lot of I/O and CPU to do so. They're used by zmd (which gets called by YaST) to figure out dependencies, etc. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
