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Old 08-28-2008
mcraul mcraul is offline
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Could one safely delete files in /var/lib/ ?
I noticed thats one directory thats using up alot of space.

OS/centos 4.x

Code:
du -ks * | sort -nr | more
122696  modules
4696    tls
3116    libnss_db.so.2.0.0
2836    kbd
2596    security
2232    libnss_ldap-2.3.4.so
1840    i686
1488    libc-2.3.4.so
928     libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
832     libdb-4.2.so
824     libnss_wins.so.2
784     libpwdb.so.0.61.1
676     libasound.so.2.0.0
476     iptables
296     libdevmapper.a.1.02
292     libpwdb.a
216     libssl.so.0.9.7a
212     libm-2.3.4.so
192     libcidn-2.3.4.so
144     rtkaio
144     firmware