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From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 08:11:42
Message-Id: CAGDaZ_pX4OmU+Xfz2RftRbaRt8vAydULADLeDoooUd-LARf+nQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition by Nikos Chantziaras
1 A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned by
2 a package.
3
4 You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs to
5 someone.
6
7 But if you find orphaned junk, it could be fair game. If you have
8 something bulky that DOES belong to a package, consider using emerge
9 --unmerge on it if you don't need it.
10
11 On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
12
13 > On 01/10/15 23:14, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
14 >
15 >> ncdu also makes it easier to find where the space is consumed. "ncdu /"
16 >> will scan and sort by size.
17 >>
18 >
19 > Sorry, should have been:
20 >
21 > ncdu -x /
22 >
23 > This will exclude mounted filesystems.
24 >
25 >
26 >
27 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>