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On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 151001 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there. |
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> > df -h |
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> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> > /dev/sda3 74G 61G 9.3G 87% / |
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> > I've already removed all the files from /usr/portage/distfiles . |
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> 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'. |
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> that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff. |
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I highly recommend sys-fs/ncdu, an ncurses front end to du. Definitely |
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much better than piping du output through sort. You can even directly |
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delete folders/files when you see that something is taking up more space |
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than expected. |
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