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From: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:48:53
Message-Id: 4E2366BC.4080606@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system by Neil Bothwick
1 What should I do about the *-bin files in /var/lib/mysql? I've dropped
2 the databases I've created and don't need anymore, but there's still a
3 lot of files in there, and it's still 21G. There are several files
4 there dated 2008 that are also on another computer. How do I safely
5 remove them?
6
7
8 On 07/17/11 17:17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
9 > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:19:14 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
10 >
11 >> I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and
12 >> I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how.
13 >
14 > It's impossible to answer that without knowing what is on /. Is /var
15 > on /? If so do you use logrotate, or is /var/lib/mysql full of .bin files?
16 >
17 > Without knowing what is taking up the space, you can't know what needs to
18 > be removed. The first step could be
19 >
20 > mount --bind / /mnt/tmp
21 > du -ch /mnt/tmp/*
22 >
23 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>