[plug] /var/spool/up2date on RH 7.3

[Bret Busby]

In trying to find why my disk free space has been significantly 
decreasing, at Anne's suggestion, I examined my /var/spool/up2date 
directory.

It has about 170MB of space occupied (du -sh).

>From what Anne has said, as headers and rpm's are downloaded and 
installed, and the system upgraded, the headers and rpm's should be 
deleted on completion.

Is this correct, and, should I rm * the contents of that directory, and, 
what is the result of that?

I have 74 updates that I cannot download, as I am at present running at 
less than 25MB free in my / partition, and the updates are about 96MB of 
downloads.

Thanks in anticipation.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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