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On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> > It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports |
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> > considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything |
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> > except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this comes to |
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> > be, since I have /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. |
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> > |
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> > I am in the middle of a KDE upgrade (4.8.0→4.8.1) right now and before I |
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> > started, I downloaded all distfiles and then looked at df /, it showed 1022 |
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> > blocks, hence about 1 GB of free disk space. I am at package 115 out of 174 |
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> > right now, and df shows a mere 389k blocks remaining. |
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> |
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> That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are in |
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> use. When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack |
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> (/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal. |
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By jove, that's definitely it. I knew about this fact from other use cases |
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(like deleting a video file which I'm still watching. HA, do that, Windows!), |
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but never thought of it regarding emerging. I always assumed for some reason |
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that the files were kept in RAM and the physical file itself was no longer |
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relevant. Just closing all programs before logging out gave back around 350 M. |
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And yes, I had a typo in the original mail; instead of 1000 blocks I meant |
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1000k Blocks. And also yes, I already knew about eclean-dist. I even wrote a |
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counterpart for Debian which deletes all .debs that aren't installed anymore, |
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but keeps all the rest. Anyway, after the reboot I now have 1059k blocks free. |
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:) |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' |
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