Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[J. Roeleveld]

On Thursday, October 01, 2015 07:02:47 AM thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> On 10/01/2015 06:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 151001 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> >> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
> >>
> >>   df -h
> >>   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >>   /dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /
> >>
> >> I've already removed all the files from  /usr/portage/distfiles .
> >
> > 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'.
> > that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff.
> >
> > My system shows :
> >   root:505 ~> df -h
> >   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >   802              30G  6.4G   24G  22% /
> >   tmpfs           395M  516K  395M   1% /run
> >   dev              10M     0   10M   0% /dev
> >   none            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
> >   cgroup_root      10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> >   /dev/sda5        30G   12G   19G  40% /home
> >   /dev/sda6        15G  6.7G  8.4G  45% /usr/portage
> >   /dev/sda7        40G  8.1G   32G  21% /z
> >   /dev/sdb1       9.8G  3.5G  6.3G  36% /usr/local
> >   /dev/sdb5       9.8G  1.6G  8.3G  16% /usr/src
> >   tmpfs           2.0G  8.0K  2.0G   1% /tmp
> >
> >  /z  is a large hangar space for handling very big files.
>
> Thanks.
> Yes, I used:
> du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10
>
> and found my /var/log/messages was over 5Gb

Permanent solution to that:
% eix logrotate
[I] app-admin/logrotate
     Available versions:  3.8.8 3.8.9 3.8.9-r1{tbz2} 3.9.1{tbz2} ~3.9.1-r1 
{acl +cron selinux}
     Installed versions:  3.9.1{tbz2}(11:02:17 AM 08/07/2015)(acl cron -
selinux)
     Homepage:            https://fedorahosted.org/logrotate/
     Description:         Rotates, compresses, and mails system logs

Install and configure.

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Joost