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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Julian Simioni |
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<julian.simioni@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> |
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>> Hello list |
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>> |
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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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>> 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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>> Also before I began the emerge run, I started 'ncdu -x /' which scans all dirs |
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>> on the / partition and then I can browse through my FS hieararchy, showing the |
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>> disk usage of every directory. Now I ran the same ncdu command again in |
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>> another screen, so I can compare it with the first one. |
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>> The folders themselves have 0.1 to 0.2 GB difference between their old and new |
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>> state, and ncdu's bottom bar even shows the same values for both apparent and |
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>> real total disk usage (rounded to 0.1 GB). So what am I missing here? I |
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>> searched df's man page for something about apparent sizes/sparse files, but |
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>> then again, why would portage create such files in the first place? |
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>> Do you have any thoughts that might help me understand what I'm seeing? |
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>> -- |
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>> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' |
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>> I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. |
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>> You will find everything in an online database. |
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>> Just not what you are looking for. |
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> Unless you have it mounted on tmpfs for increased compilation speed as |
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> many others do, /var/tmp/portage can easily grow to several hundred |
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> megabytes as packages are compiled. Once the compilation finishes |
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> successfully, it will be cleaned up, so the contents are constantly |
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> changing during an emerge, and it may not be easy to track down after |
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> the fact. |
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And only after hitting send to I register the line where you mention |
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that you do in fact use tmpfs. doh! |
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