From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S2NHm-0001Ce-Ve for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:40:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8456AE093E; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.105]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB61E09A5 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:38:55 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnYGABzYTE98qOi1/2dsb2JhbABCAYMTgiahGI0ogQeBcwEBBSNmCw0LAgIVAg8CAiE2GYgFrWuKWIEvh2Fbgx8BCgcLAgIDAQICAwQGDwkDBwgSAQYDAoR/BwQBWBgPEQGBdoEWBIhNklAihRmHZIFH X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,496,1325433600"; d="scan'208";a="333495682" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.168.232.181]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 28 Feb 2012 21:38:50 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D401E3F9 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:38:42 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YpaTFuOqbqlY for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:37:56 +0800 (WST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA321E3F4 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:37:56 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20120228135244.5ffb6da4@khamul.example.com> References: <20120228135244.5ffb6da4@khamul.example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:37:53 +0800 Message-ID: <1330436274.4570.42.camel@moriah> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 01313561-7c1a-4452-aa16-4ef8ecea6677 X-Archives-Hash: 1feb89c03cc49b4a1cb358fb86f9e0a4 On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 13:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 +0000 > trevor donahue 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