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The only problem with this approach is that I don't have enough space to |
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download http-replicator. I'll try this as soon as I get things somewhat |
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cleaned-up. Thanks for the advice! |
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-Jason |
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Dale wrote: |
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> Jason W Elliot wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there was |
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>> not enough disk space. I ran df and noticed that /usr is 100% full. |
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>> I am wonderring whether there is an easy way to clean it up. I'd |
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>> rather not resize my partitions, and it's likely that there's a lot of |
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>> junk in there that I don't need. Is it safe to remove the stuff in |
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>> /usr/portage/distfiles? |
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>> Thanks! |
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> I can tell you how I cleaned my distfiles out. I installed |
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> http-replicator and let it clean them out. It knows what source files |
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> are no longer going to be used, to old and not in portage any more, and |
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> then you can delete the old ones. It will list them too. |
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> If you do this, don't forget to put the proxy line in make.conf and |
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> point it back to itself. Basically it moves everything to cache then |
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> you can delete the rest in distfile. If you do a emerge, it just puts |
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> them back. Sounds strange but it worked well for me. I also use it for |
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> three servers connected here on a LAN. It was a fringe benefit I guess. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) |
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> -- |
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> To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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> I have four rigs: |
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> 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker |
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> 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty |
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> 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey |
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> 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput |
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> All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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Jason |
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