[Bio-Linux] Problems relating to /var reaching 100% full

[Dan Swan]

Dear Bio-Linux admins,

A few reports are trickling in with regards to problems which seem wide 
ranging but may actually be due to full disks on the machine.

The Yum system which keeps your machines up to date seems to be filling 
/var to 100% capacity.  You can verify this with :

df -m | grep var

If you see 100% reported in this line, you need to remove the packages 
yum has cached with this line.   Please type it exactly as rm -rf is 
very destructive when mistpyed:

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/*

This will reduce useage to around 20% in var, and may fix sporadic or 
hard to trace errors you may be experiencing.

regards,

Dan

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