dude67 Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 I just had a closer look at what my HD has "eaten" and realized I have a huge tmp folder. That tmp contains only one notable folder: kde-dude67 with the size of 34,6 GB! In that folder I have two very large folders in it: ark5DEZfz (16,1 GB) and arkXeFDBv (14,9 GB). What are these folders and do I really need them? In windoze I'd just delete the contents of tmp or temp folders, but I never thought that KDE or Gnome would collect a very large temporary folder. I'm currently using Gnome, but I have KDE installed. I use KDE very seldom, but do so every 2 months or so. Should I just delete the tmp folder and it's contents, or would that lead to problems with KDE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 (edited) It doesn't seem to have somthing to do with KDE itself. Are you running Beagle? It has the very bad habbit of leaving monstrous temporary files (till next reboot) and colossal logfiles- also several GB long. (which are permament, unless cycled via a cron task). Edited December 23, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Actually I was running Beagle, but just killed it. It kept the system slow and didn't quite see any point in using it. I hopefully also managed to stop loading it in the next boot. OK, if it was Beagle, I would be able to delete the folders safely then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 OK, if it was Beagle, I would be able to delete the folders safely then?You can safely delete anything in ~/tmp/kde-dude67, except maybe a directory like ~/tmp/kde-dude67/kdenlive that may contain something you want to keep for that app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 You can safely delete everything in /tmp -- though, depending on your distro, you may not have to. For example, Arch wipes /tmp at boot. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 you can set mandriva to clean up /tmp from mcc under Boot->set up system boot->Main options:-> advanced->check clean up /tmp at each boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Mandriva can be set to clear /tmp as ffi says. However, I also have a /home/steve/tmp which can accumulate some crud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted December 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 Exactly what daniewicz said: I have /tmp folder (containing some tmp files but not taking that much disk space) and then I have /home/dude67/tmp folder that is taking huge amounts of HD space. There are quite a few folders and files there and I'm not really sure what they are. Some folders are named "keyring-xxx", most of them are named "virtual-dude67.xxxx", but the ones taking the most spece are the two folders under /home/dude67/tmp/kde-dude67. The two big folders contain some temp tar files (judging by the names of the folders: temp_tarGjMn9R and temp_tarRjylbb). I did already delete the whole kde folder (freed some 34,5 GB HD space), but what are those keyring and virtual folders under the tmp folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 24, 2007 Report Share Posted December 24, 2007 I cleaned out my /home/steve/tmp folder without any problem. I had about 11 MB in there. :unsure: I think you should be OK deleting all files in /home/dude67/tmp. To be safe, you could move the files to a folder on your desktop. If your system functions well with the files in this desktop folder, then they can be safely deleted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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