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trevor donahue writes: |
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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 |
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> then 100 mb, which obviously is not enough ... |
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Use eclean-dist and eclean-pkg (in app-portage/gentoolkit) to delete your |
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distfiles. |
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If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for |
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the superuser, which is 5% as default: |
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tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition |
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Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you |
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will get. |
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> So this time I googled a bit and I deleted all the /usr/share/doc/ and |
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> 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? what |
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> is storing this much space? logs? |
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You need to find out for yourself. I sometimes simply do a du -mx |
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--max-depth=1 / to see which directory has what amount of data in it. |
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Repeat for interesting directories like /usr/share/doc, and you will see |
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what takes big space. Add a '| sort -n' to get sorted output. Or better |
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use sys-fs/ncdu which is interactive. |
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If you prefer something graphical, there are many alternatives: |
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Baobab in gnome-extra/gnome-utils |
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kde-base/filelight |
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k4dirstat in kde-misc/kdirstat |
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Konqueror -> View -> View Mode -> File Size View (or something like that |
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in English) |
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jdiskreport in sys-fs/jdiskreport-bin |
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