Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

[John covici]

on Monday 05/04/2009 Mick(michaelkintzios@×××××.com) wrote
 > On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote:
 > > on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(lists@××××××××××××.de) wrote
 > 
 > >  > > You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time
 > >  >
 > >  > Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps there and /var/log/portage can be
 > >  > cleaned up by a script that compresses everything older than 1 day (the
 > >  > test helps not to "disturb" a running portage or get ugly split logs).
 > >
 > > What I would really like to do is get rid of everything except the
 > > most recent compile of each program in /var/log/portage -- anyone have a
 > > script to do that?
 > 
 > Check man emerge and read (carefully) --clean --depclean and --prune options.  
 > Use any of these judiciously because you can easily hose your box (if you get 
 > rid of your compiler for example).
 > -- 
 > Regards,
 > Mick

I was only talking about getting rid of log files in /var/log/portage
where it keeps a record of each build of every program.  Seems to me
only the most recent one is significant.

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