Oracle Linux: Clean Yum dbcache

These weeks we provide a course on Weblogic 11g and 12c Basic and Advanced Administration and Tuning & Troubleshooting. We use an Oracle Linux 6 VM with a Database and Weblogic 11g and 12c.

We got some complaints (issued in a friendly way, by the way) from the attendees that a filesystem of the VM got filled up.

One of the attendees found out that the following folder containt some very large files:

/var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/public_ol6_latest

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3225280512 Jun 15 21:10 other.xml.gz.sqlite

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  475535360 Jun 15 21:07 primary.xml.gz.sqlite

This is apparently a yum cache that can be emptied with the following command:

# yum clean dbcache./startStopDmn.sh stop Servers fmw $1

I should remember this to do before sharing a VM.
Thanks Frederique for this smart tip.