[gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[thelma]

How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /

I've already removed all the files from:
/usr/portage/distfiles

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Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[Alan McKinnon]

On 01/10/2015 14:41, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
> df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /
> 
> I've already removed all the files from:
> /usr/portage/distfiles
> 

for each item_of_shit in all_items_in_/
  || ( rm item_of_shit)
     ( mv item_of_shit some_other_place)
update fstab if some_other_places are on new volumes
mount new volumes


So that's a Microsoft answer: 100% completely technically correct, and
nonetheless still tells you absolutely nothing.

But it's the best answer I can give you until you read this:

www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[Philip Webb]

151001 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
>   df -h
>   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>   /dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /
> I've already removed all the files from  /usr/portage/distfiles .

'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'.
that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff.
My system shows :

  root:505 ~> df -h
  Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  802              30G  6.4G   24G  22% /
  tmpfs           395M  516K  395M   1% /run
  dev              10M     0   10M   0% /dev
  none            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
  cgroup_root      10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
  /dev/sda5        30G   12G   19G  40% /home
  /dev/sda6        15G  6.7G  8.4G  45% /usr/portage
  /dev/sda7        40G  8.1G   32G  21% /z
  /dev/sdb1       9.8G  3.5G  6.3G  36% /usr/local
  /dev/sdb5       9.8G  1.6G  8.3G  16% /usr/src
  tmpfs           2.0G  8.0K  2.0G   1% /tmp

 /z  is a large hangar space for handling very big files.

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Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[thelma]

On 10/01/2015 06:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> 151001 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
>>   df -h
>>   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>   /dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /
>> I've already removed all the files from  /usr/portage/distfiles .
> 
> 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'.
> that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff.
> My system shows :
> 
>   root:505 ~> df -h
>   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>   802              30G  6.4G   24G  22% /
>   tmpfs           395M  516K  395M   1% /run
>   dev              10M     0   10M   0% /dev
>   none            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
>   cgroup_root      10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>   /dev/sda5        30G   12G   19G  40% /home
>   /dev/sda6        15G  6.7G  8.4G  45% /usr/portage
>   /dev/sda7        40G  8.1G   32G  21% /z
>   /dev/sdb1       9.8G  3.5G  6.3G  36% /usr/local
>   /dev/sdb5       9.8G  1.6G  8.3G  16% /usr/src
>   tmpfs           2.0G  8.0K  2.0G   1% /tmp
> 
>  /z  is a large hangar space for handling very big files.

Thanks.
Yes, I used:
du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10

and found my /var/log/messages was over 5Gb

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Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[Alan McKinnon]

On 01/10/2015 15:02, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 10/01/2015 06:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 151001 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
>>>   df -h
>>>   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>   /dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /
>>> I've already removed all the files from  /usr/portage/distfiles .
>>
>> 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'.
>> that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff.
>> My system shows :
>>
>>   root:505 ~> df -h
>>   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>   802              30G  6.4G   24G  22% /
>>   tmpfs           395M  516K  395M   1% /run
>>   dev              10M     0   10M   0% /dev
>>   none            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
>>   cgroup_root      10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>>   /dev/sda5        30G   12G   19G  40% /home
>>   /dev/sda6        15G  6.7G  8.4G  45% /usr/portage
>>   /dev/sda7        40G  8.1G   32G  21% /z
>>   /dev/sdb1       9.8G  3.5G  6.3G  36% /usr/local
>>   /dev/sdb5       9.8G  1.6G  8.3G  16% /usr/src
>>   tmpfs           2.0G  8.0K  2.0G   1% /tmp
>>
>>  /z  is a large hangar space for handling very big files.
> 
> Thanks.
> Yes, I used:
> du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10
> 
> and found my /var/log/messages was over 5Gb


Junk can accumulate in hundreds of places, it all depends how you set
the host up. These are often culprits:

/home/*
/tmp/
/var/tmp/portage
/usr/src




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Alan McKinnon
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Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[Jeremi Piotrowski]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Philip Webb wrote:

> 151001 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
> >   df -h
> >   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >   /dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /
> > I've already removed all the files from  /usr/portage/distfiles .
> 
> 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'.
> that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff.

I highly recommend sys-fs/ncdu, an ncurses front end to du. Definitely
much better than piping du output through sort. You can even directly
delete folders/files when you see that something is taking up more space
than expected.

Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

[J. Roeleveld]

On Thursday, October 01, 2015 07:02:47 AM thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 10/01/2015 06:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 151001 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> >> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
> >> 
> >>   df -h
> >>   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >>   /dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /
> >> 
> >> I've already removed all the files from  /usr/portage/distfiles .
> > 
> > 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'.
> > that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff.
> > 
> > My system shows :
> >   root:505 ~> df -h
> >   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >   802              30G  6.4G   24G  22% /
> >   tmpfs           395M  516K  395M   1% /run
> >   dev              10M     0   10M   0% /dev
> >   none            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
> >   cgroup_root      10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> >   /dev/sda5        30G   12G   19G  40% /home
> >   /dev/sda6        15G  6.7G  8.4G  45% /usr/portage
> >   /dev/sda7        40G  8.1G   32G  21% /z
> >   /dev/sdb1       9.8G  3.5G  6.3G  36% /usr/local
> >   /dev/sdb5       9.8G  1.6G  8.3G  16% /usr/src
> >   tmpfs           2.0G  8.0K  2.0G   1% /tmp
> >  
> >  /z  is a large hangar space for handling very big files.
> 
> Thanks.
> Yes, I used:
> du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10
> 
> and found my /var/log/messages was over 5Gb

Permanent solution to that:
% eix logrotate
[I] app-admin/logrotate
     Available versions:  3.8.8 3.8.9 3.8.9-r1{tbz2} 3.9.1{tbz2} ~3.9.1-r1 
{acl +cron selinux}
     Installed versions:  3.9.1{tbz2}(11:02:17 AM 08/07/2015)(acl cron -
selinux)
     Homepage:            https://fedorahosted.org/logrotate/
     Description:         Rotates, compresses, and mails system logs

Install and configure.

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Joost

[gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/10/15 15:41, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there.
> df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3        74G   61G  9.3G  87% /
>
> I've already removed all the files from:
> /usr/portage/distfiles

You can maintain that with "eclean-dist -d". Also check portage/packages 
for old binary packages.

ncdu also makes it easier to find where the space is consumed. "ncdu /" 
will scan and sort by size.

[gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/10/15 23:14, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> ncdu also makes it easier to find where the space is consumed. "ncdu /"
> will scan and sort by size.

Sorry, should have been:

   ncdu -x /

This will exclude mounted filesystems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Raymond Jennings]

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A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned by
a package.

You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs to
someone.

But if you find orphaned junk, it could be fair game.  If you have
something bulky that DOES belong to a package, consider using emerge
--unmerge on it if you don't need it.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/10/15 23:14, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> ncdu also makes it easier to find where the space is consumed. "ncdu /"
>> will scan and sort by size.
>>
>
> Sorry, should have been:
>
>   ncdu -x /
>
> This will exclude mounted filesystems.
>
>
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 00:10:47 -0800, Raymond Jennings wrote:

> A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned
> by a package.
> 
> You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs
> to someone.
> 
> But if you find orphaned junk, it could be fair game.

You can build a list of orphaned files with qfile

qfile -o $(find / -xdev -type f)

You may want to exclude /etc/ from the search path as that produces a lot
of hits.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a
good idea to put wheels on luggage?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 00:10:47 -0800, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>
>> A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned
>> by a package.
>>
>> You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs
>> to someone.
>>
>> But if you find orphaned junk, it could be fair game.
> You can build a list of orphaned files with qfile
>
> qfile -o $(find / -xdev -type f)
>
> You may want to exclude /etc/ from the search path as that produces a lot
> of hits.
>
>


I get a few hits on this, so far.  If it reports that it is a orphan,
just how sure is it that it is?  Is it 100% and safe to delete or 90%
and could break something? 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:32:01 -0600, Dale wrote:

> > You can build a list of orphaned files with qfile
> >
> > qfile -o $(find / -xdev -type f)
> >
> > You may want to exclude /etc/ from the search path as that produces a
> > lot of hits.

> I get a few hits on this, so far.  If it reports that it is a orphan,
> just how sure is it that it is?  Is it 100% and safe to delete or 90%
> and could break something? 

As with everything Gentoo, it is 100% safe to look at the output and
make your own decisions. Generally, if its in /lib or /usr/lib it's
usually fair game, but not if it's in /etc.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Idaho - It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[J. Roeleveld]

On 23 November 2015 10:30:29 CET, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:32:01 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> > You can build a list of orphaned files with qfile
>> >
>> > qfile -o $(find / -xdev -type f)
>> >
>> > You may want to exclude /etc/ from the search path as that produces
>a
>> > lot of hits.
>
>> I get a few hits on this, so far.  If it reports that it is a orphan,
>> just how sure is it that it is?  Is it 100% and safe to delete or 90%
>> and could break something? 
>
>As with everything Gentoo, it is 100% safe to look at the output and
>make your own decisions. Generally, if its in /lib or /usr/lib it's
>usually fair game, but not if it's in /etc.

Take backups (including the full path and permissions)

And make sure you have a working boot disk/cd/usb/... to restore any files you deleted.

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Joost 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:32:01 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>>> You can build a list of orphaned files with qfile
>>>
>>> qfile -o $(find / -xdev -type f)
>>>
>>> You may want to exclude /etc/ from the search path as that produces a
>>> lot of hits.
>> I get a few hits on this, so far.  If it reports that it is a orphan,
>> just how sure is it that it is?  Is it 100% and safe to delete or 90%
>> and could break something? 
> As with everything Gentoo, it is 100% safe to look at the output and
> make your own decisions. Generally, if its in /lib or /usr/lib it's
> usually fair game, but not if it's in /etc.
>
>


I have some in lib directories.  I skipped the ones in /etc and home
directories.  This is a example:

/lib64/firmware/LICENCE.iwlwifi_firmware
/lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_410nv_nic.bin
/lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_210nv_nic.bin
/lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_210sv_nic.bin
/lib64/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
/lib64/firmware/LICENCE.atheros_firmware
/lib64/firmware/TDA7706_OM_v2.5.1_boot.txt
/lib64/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.8.10-fw-1.10.3.11.e.bseq
/lib64/firmware/intel/fw_sst_22a8.bin

/lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.isapnpmap
/lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.ieee1394map
/lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.pcimap
/lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.order
/lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.symbols.bin
/lib64/modules/4.1.2-gentoo/modules.dep

/lib64/udev/scsi_id
/lib64/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules
/lib64/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid-assembly.rules
/lib64/udev/rules.d/63-md-raid-arrays.rules
/lib64/udev/rules.d/90-alsa-restore.rules
/lib64/udev/rules.d/99-fuse.rules
/lib64/udev/rules.d/77-mm-huawei-net-port-types.rules
/lib64/udev/rules.d/95-upower-wup.rules


That is just a small snippet.  There are so many, it seems odd that that
many would be left behind but equery shows they belong to nothing for
the ones I tested on. 

Thought it better to ask first.  ;-)  May just leave it alone. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:42:48 -0600, Dale wrote:

> > As with everything Gentoo, it is 100% safe to look at the output and
> > make your own decisions. Generally, if its in /lib or /usr/lib it's
> > usually fair game, but not if it's in /etc.

> I have some in lib directories.  I skipped the ones in /etc and home
> directories.  This is a example:
> 
> /lib64/firmware/LICENCE.iwlwifi_firmware
> /lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_410nv_nic.bin
> /lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_210nv_nic.bin
> /lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_210sv_nic.bin
> /lib64/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
> /lib64/firmware/LICENCE.atheros_firmware
> /lib64/firmware/TDA7706_OM_v2.5.1_boot.txt
> /lib64/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.8.10-fw-1.10.3.11.e.bseq
> /lib64/firmware/intel/fw_sst_22a8.bin

How did they get there? Did you manually install some firmware or
drivers? To be safe, run qfile on each of them, they may be recorded as
having been installed to /lib instead of /lib64 or vice-versa. If you
think they are no longer needed, move them elsewhere, reboot and see what
breaks.

> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.isapnpmap
> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.ieee1394map
> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.pcimap
> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.order
> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.symbols.bin
> /lib64/modules/4.1.2-gentoo/modules.dep

You should rarely delete anything in /lib/modules. These files are
created during the kernel build/install process.
 
> That is just a small snippet.  There are so many, it seems odd that that
> many would be left behind but equery shows they belong to nothing for
> the ones I tested on. 
> 
> Thought it better to ask first.  ;-)  May just leave it alone. 

If disk space is not critical, that is the easiest option.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The trouble with life is that you are halfway through it before you
realize it's a "do it yourself" thing.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:42:48 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>>> As with everything Gentoo, it is 100% safe to look at the output and
>>> make your own decisions. Generally, if its in /lib or /usr/lib it's
>>> usually fair game, but not if it's in /etc.
>> I have some in lib directories.  I skipped the ones in /etc and home
>> directories.  This is a example:
>>
>> /lib64/firmware/LICENCE.iwlwifi_firmware
>> /lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_410nv_nic.bin
>> /lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_210nv_nic.bin
>> /lib64/firmware/liquidio/lio_210sv_nic.bin
>> /lib64/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
>> /lib64/firmware/LICENCE.atheros_firmware
>> /lib64/firmware/TDA7706_OM_v2.5.1_boot.txt
>> /lib64/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.8.10-fw-1.10.3.11.e.bseq
>> /lib64/firmware/intel/fw_sst_22a8.bin
> How did they get there? Did you manually install some firmware or
> drivers? To be safe, run qfile on each of them, they may be recorded as
> having been installed to /lib instead of /lib64 or vice-versa. If you
> think they are no longer needed, move them elsewhere, reboot and see what
> breaks.

I have no idea but I can assure you, it was not me.  ;-) 

>
>> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.isapnpmap
>> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.ieee1394map
>> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.pcimap
>> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.order
>> /lib64/modules/3.2.11-gentoo/modules.symbols.bin
>> /lib64/modules/4.1.2-gentoo/modules.dep
> You should rarely delete anything in /lib/modules. These files are
> created during the kernel build/install process.

That's what I thought.  I knew they were put somewhere but wasn't 100%
that was it.  I sort of thought it was somewhere else but noticed the
kernel version which raised a eyebrow or two. 


>  
>> That is just a small snippet.  There are so many, it seems odd that that
>> many would be left behind but equery shows they belong to nothing for
>> the ones I tested on. 
>>
>> Thought it better to ask first.  ;-)  May just leave it alone. 
> If disk space is not critical, that is the easiest option.
>
>


It's not so I think I'll just leave well enough alone.  Why fix it when
it isn't broken, although I do like to keep a clean OS.  I just don't
want a broken one.  :/

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)