OCI: /var/cache/yum Constantly Filling Files System to 100%

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later Linux x86-64

Goal

This note explains how to free up space when files under /var/cache/yum is filling up the disk space.

Solution

This is a normal behavior as the cache would increase its size based on the frequency of syncing with the yum server.

Its an administrative task provide adequate space.

This should be corrected by either running:

$ yum clean all

Clean all cached files from any enabled repository. Useful to run from time to time to make sure there is nothing using unnecessary space.

or