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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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I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here: |
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1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) |
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2) rm -r /usr/portage/distfiles/* |
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3) Keep your kernel sources compressed until you need them. This saves |
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about 190MB or something: |
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cd /usr/src/ ; tar cj linux-`uname -r` -f linux-`uname |
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-r`-COMPRESSED.tar.bz2 && rm -r linux-`uname -r` obviously you'll |
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have to untar and re-delete that tree if you actually need it. |
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Here's a new one. Once you have more space, IF you have kde, filelight |
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is a nice way to see space usage and track it down quickly and see it in |
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a great visual format. Be sure to go into its settings, though, and tell |
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it to cross filesystem boundaries, and also show small files. |
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I'll also agree that reiserfs (3) is nice in that by default it packs |
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tails, i.e. compresses the ends of blocks. Over a whole system this can |
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add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. |
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