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On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 13:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 +0000 |
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> trevor donahue <donahue.trevor@×××××.com> 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 |
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> > am 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 |
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> > then 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/ |
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> > and this left me with 2.5 gb of space (wow). |
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> > So the questions are ... in cases like this, what should be done? |
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> > what is storing this much space? logs? |
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> The thing that is taking up your space is whatever is making big files |
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> or lots of files. |
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> Now that could be anything, you will have to look on your machine |
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> yourself and tell us what it is. |
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> Start here: |
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> du -sh /* |
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> Start with the biggest directory and recursively go deeper down into |
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> the structure till you find the major space hogs. |
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> Logs is one option, and a likely one. But by no means the only |
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> possibility. So just run du and find what it is on *your* box. |
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or "du|sort -rn|less" |
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hogs are at the top ... |
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BillK |
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