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On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 trevor donahue wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for |
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> several months now and I simply lllooove it! |
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> So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without |
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> updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am |
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> left without disk space... In situations like this I start deleting |
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> /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even a |
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> revdep-rebuild to fix something, but even then I'm left with no more then |
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> 100 mb, which obviously is not enough ... |
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> So this time I googled a bit and I deleted all the /usr/share/doc/ and this |
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> left me with 2.5 gb of space (wow). |
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> |
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> So the questions are ... in cases like this, what should be done? what is |
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> storing this much space? logs? |
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Gentoo takes up more space than a conventional binary distro because of |
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portage and source files in /usr/portage/distfiles. |
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Look at eclean to help you remove old package files no longer installed. |
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Also look at logrotate to help you automatically rotate, compress and delete |
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old(er) log files. |
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As a matter of good practice I always fit /var/ on a different partition to |
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guard against logs going overboard and running out of space. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |