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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:02:51
Message-Id: 560D2EF7.7060105@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition by Philip Webb
1 On 10/01/2015 06:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 151001 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
3 >> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
4 >> df -h
5 >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
6 >> /dev/sda3 74G 61G 9.3G 87% /
7 >> I've already removed all the files from /usr/portage/distfiles .
8 >
9 > 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'.
10 > that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff.
11 > My system shows :
12 >
13 > root:505 ~> df -h
14 > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
15 > 802 30G 6.4G 24G 22% /
16 > tmpfs 395M 516K 395M 1% /run
17 > dev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
18 > none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
19 > cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
20 > /dev/sda5 30G 12G 19G 40% /home
21 > /dev/sda6 15G 6.7G 8.4G 45% /usr/portage
22 > /dev/sda7 40G 8.1G 32G 21% /z
23 > /dev/sdb1 9.8G 3.5G 6.3G 36% /usr/local
24 > /dev/sdb5 9.8G 1.6G 8.3G 16% /usr/src
25 > tmpfs 2.0G 8.0K 2.0G 1% /tmp
26 >
27 > /z is a large hangar space for handling very big files.
28
29 Thanks.
30 Yes, I used:
31 du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10
32
33 and found my /var/log/messages was over 5Gb
34
35 --
36 Thelma

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Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>