Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 13:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 +0000
> trevor donahue <donahue.trevor@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for
> > several months now and I simply lllooove it!
> > So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without
> > updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I
> > am left without disk space... In situations like this I start deleting
> > /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even a
> > revdep-rebuild to fix something, but even then I'm left with no more
> > then 100 mb, which obviously is not enough ...
> > So this time I googled a bit and I deleted all the /usr/share/doc/
> > and this left me with 2.5 gb of space (wow).
> > 
> > So the questions are ... in cases like this, what should be done?
> > what is storing this much space? logs?
> 
> The thing that is taking up your space is whatever is making big files
> or lots of files.
> 
> Now that could be anything, you will have to look on your machine
> yourself and tell us what it is.
> 
> Start here:
> 
> du -sh /*
> 
> Start with the biggest directory and recursively go deeper down into
> the structure till you find the major space hogs.
> 
> Logs is one option, and a likely one. But by no means the only
> possibility. So just run du and find what it is on *your* box.
> 
> 
> 

or "du|sort -rn|less"

hogs are at the top ...

BillK