Huge tmp folder

[dude67]

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?

[scarecrow]

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

[dude67]

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?

[Greg2]

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.

[iphitus]

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

[ffi]

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

[daniewicz]

Mandriva can be set to clear /tmp as ffi says. However, I also have a /home/steve/tmp which can accumulate some crud.

[dude67]

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?

[daniewicz]

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.