I have update script for my computer here.

The last action in the script is to check the /var/ directory.

du -sh /var/* | sort -rh | head -n 10

I saw that

4,0G    /var/lib

2,2G    /var/spool

What is /var/spool

/var/spool contains the printer jobs, crash reports and e-mails

I check what is the content of the path /var/spool and I found the folder „abrt“

What is abrt?

In the manual, page stands:

abrt – Manage problems handled by ABRT

On the official website of abrt:

ABRT is a set of tools to help users detect and report application crashes. Its main purpose is to ease the process of reporting an issue and finding a solution.

How to check what it has crashed in the past?

with the command

abrt list

I could see what kind of programs had problems (crashes) in the past. Each of the crashes creates a Core Dump that is a snapshot of the RAM. This is why the files are so big In my case (it is a shortened list):

sven@fedora:/var/spool$ abrt list

Id           ed18d3f  

Component    audacity-freeworld  

Count        1  

Time         2025-03-30 08:33:10  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           7b6f030  

Component    rygel  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-01 19:53:48  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           57b299b  

Component    kdenlive  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-07 19:52:04  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           d53a91b  

Component    kdenlive  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-07 19:57:23  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           55de27f  

Component    nautilus  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-16 05:30:47  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           859cabb  

Component    tracker-miners  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-16 07:39:07  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           e85c218  

Component    gnome-shell  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-17 05:34:18  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           0550766  

Component    kdenlive  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-19 06:25:59  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           1f4ed0d  

Component    gnome-shell  

Count        2  

Time         2025-04-22 05:24:45  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           f745bc9  

Component    gnome-shell  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-22 09:46:40  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           f41dabd  

Component    mlt  

Count        5  

Time         2025-04-22 18:47:29  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           58ce6b2  

Component    kdenlive  

Count        1  

Time         2025-04-24 08:19:51  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           63c5d78  

Component    gnome-shell  

Count        1  

Time         2025-05-02 08:02:40  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           17929c3  

Component    mutter  

Count        1  

Time         2025-05-02 08:03:04  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           8913de2  

Component    firefox  

Count        1  

Time         2025-05-02 08:03:06  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           eec8b90  

Component    xorg-x11-server-Xwayland  

Count        1  

Time         2025-05-02 08:03:10  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           0a47abb  

Component    tracker-miners  

Count        1  

Time         2025-05-02 08:03:57  

User id      1000 (sven)  

Id           b5b3eb5  

Component    showtime 

To remove the entries and the files in /var/spool/abrt

You can delete it but

sven@fedora:/var/spool/abrt$ sudo abrt-cli auto-purge
usage: abrt-cli [-h] [-a] [-v] COMMAND …
abrt-cli: error: argument COMMAND: invalid choice: ‚auto-purge‘ (choose from backtrace, bt, gdb, info, i, list, ls, remove, rm, report, e, retrace, status, st)

sudo abrt-cli auto-purge

does not work

You have to delete every entry manually with

sudo abrt remove

Automatic command could be

sudo abrt list | awk ‚NR>1 {print $1}‘ | sudo xargs -I {} abrt-cli remove {}

Checking after the deleting of /var/spool/abrt

After this action I only have

/var/spool = 1.3 M instead of 2.2 GB.