Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood at googlemail.com> writes: > [root at rockover ~]# du -s /var/lib/yum/yumdb > 129596 /var/lib/yum/yumdb What version of yum is this? Can you try: cp -a /var/lib/yum/yumdb /tmp hardlink /tmp/yumdb du -sh /tmp/yumdb -- James Antill -- james at and.org