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Watch this one! |
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I ended up with a seriously broken system after running localepurge - |
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make sure you have your locale sorted out first! But it can save quite |
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a lot of space - pity the system was dead in the water ... |
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reiserfs is more space efficient than other filesystems like ext2/3 |
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(depending on a lot of things ... YMMV) |
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-O3 - saves peanuts overall |
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rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove |
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what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other |
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"good" version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll |
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back ... :) |
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rm -rfv /usr/portage/distfiles - after thinking about if you need to |
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keep these versions, consider if redownloading them wont be a problem |
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(or write them out to DVD/CD etc. There are also a couple of distfile |
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cleaner programs - see the forums. If you have another machine, look |
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into http-replicator - highly recommended. |
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rm -rfv /var/tmp/portage - this can all go - often cruft like crashed OO |
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builds end up here - can be huge. |
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run `du /|sort -rn|less` and see where your biggest files/directories |
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are and see if they can go. |
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In real tight situations, NFS can help by |
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putting /usr/portage/distfiles, /var/tmp/portage, etc on other machines |
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with more diskspace. I have found this to be very flakey at times |
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depending on kernel versions, system loads, etc. Huge builds like OO |
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rarely finished without a crash or two in the build process :) |
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Use the -doc useflag and rebuild - this can save over a GB on a large |
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systems |
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there have been a number of threads over the years on saving space - |
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search the forums. |
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BillK |
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BillK |
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On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:38 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Grant wrote: |
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> > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for |
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> > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard |
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> > disk space? |
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> > - Grant |
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> localepurge |
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> rm -rf /var/tmp/ |
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> using reiserfs |
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> stop using -O3 |
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> rm -rf /usr/src/linux* |
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