OK, so you’re running Fedora and you’re getting warnings that you’re running out of disk space on the root folder. What are your options?

The first thing to consider is resizing the root partition size. For that you can find instructions here

If that is not an option, then the next thing you probably should do is find out which folders/directories are causing the issue. You can use the du command and some piping to figure this out:

You can increase the download speed for installing packages using DNF by updating the maximum number of simultaneous package downloads.

Start by editing the /etc/dnf/dnf.conf file:

$ sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Add the following line to enable DNF parallel downloads:

max_parallel_downloads=10

Another option is to select the fastest mirror from the Fedora public mirrors by adding the following line:

fastestmirror=True

Listing installed packages with YUM:

$ sudo yum list installed

To display details about a package:

$ yum info nginx

You can cat all installed packages to a file, copy the file to another machine and duplicate the system:

$ sudo yum list installed > installed-packages.txt $ sudo yum -y install $(cat installed-packages.txt)

List installed packages with RPM: