RE: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

RE: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

[CR Little]

It's a single drive.

/dev/hda3             3.7G  1.3G  2.3G  36% /
/dev/hda5             4.6G  4.1G  285M  94% /usr
/dev/hda6             4.6G  312M  4.1G   7% /var
/dev/hda7             2.8G   33M  2.6G   2% /tmp
/dev/hda8              11G   35M  9.9G   1% /home
none                   89M     0   89M   0% /dev/shm


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From: Robert Crawford [mailto:flacycads@cox.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:13, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> CR Little


CR Little,
Please post output of df -h, and your /etc/fstab. From the posts on your

problem, I can't tell what's what- looks lke all is on /usr, as its own 
partition.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

[Robert Crawford]

On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:38, CR Little wrote:
> It's a single drive.
>(add this line
> /dev/hda3             3.7G  1.3G  2.3G  36% /
> /dev/hda5             4.6G  4.1G  285M  94% /usr
> /dev/hda6             4.6G  312M  4.1G   7% /var
> /dev/hda7             2.8G   33M  2.6G   2% /tmp
> /dev/hda8              11G   35M  9.9G   1% /home
> none                   89M     0   89M   0% /dev/shm
>
Since /home has a lot of free space, you could put portage (along with 
distfiles) on /home, and after you're satisfied it works OK remove portage 
from /usr, gaining back at least around 1GB or so.

cp -a /usr/portage/ /home

Just to be safe, temporarily rename /usr/portage to portage.old

mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old

Then change the /etc/make.profile symlink to point to the new location.

cd /etc
rm -rf make.profile
ln -s /home/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 make.profile
  
(this is just an example from my system- you may using a different profile- 
check with emerge --info)

Edit /etc/make.conf (add this line)

PORTDIR=/home/portage

Run an emerge --sync to check if it works. It should, and you can then do:

rm -rf /usr/portage.old
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[gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

[CR Little]

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I did a df -h on my system today and I only have 300 megs left on /usr

 

So I went into /usr/portage and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G

 

I then went into /usr/src and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G also

 

Granted this is a small box - 5 Gigs for /usr

 

Should I delete all the outdated sources in /usr/src to gain space and
if so will is a simple rm -rf linux-2.6.outdated work?

 

Next, what will happen if I rm -rf /usr/portage will the next emerge
sync rebuild it?

 

 

Where should I check to get some disk space back?

IIt seems most of the space that is being taken up is /usr/portage and
/usr/src

 

Thanks.

CR.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

[Joshua Schmidlkofer]

emerge sync cleans up after itself.  Rather, rsync takes care of that,
so do not expect to gain too much.

Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can
do something akin to this:

emerge -c =gentoo-sources-<version>-<revision>

e.g.

To remove all of these kernels

 linux-2.6.14-r1
 linux-2.6.14-r2
 linux-2.6.14-r4
 linux-2.6.14-r7
 linux-2.6.12-r1
 linux-2.6.13-r1

emerge -c ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14 \<sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14


Exciting.

thanks,
  joshua

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

[Daniel Drake]

Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> emerge sync cleans up after itself.  Rather, rsync takes care of that,
> so do not expect to gain too much.

/usr/portage/distfiles will be taking up much of that 1.5GB. It's safe 
to clean that.

> Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can
> do something akin to this:
> 
> emerge -c =gentoo-sources-<version>-<revision>

I think you mean -C

You need to manually remove the directories after, to get rid of the 
objects and temporary files generated in compilation. Actually, you 
should do the remove operation first, because then the unmerge is quicker.

Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

[Robert Crawford]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:59, CR Little wrote:
> I did a df -h on my system today and I only have 300 megs left on /usr
>
>
>
> So I went into /usr/portage and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G
>
>
>
> I then went into /usr/src and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G also
>
>
>
> Granted this is a small box - 5 Gigs for /usr
>
>
>
> Should I delete all the outdated sources in /usr/src to gain space and
> if so will is a simple rm -rf linux-2.6.outdated work?
Try using yacleaner to clean out obsolete distfiles- works great, and I've 
tried them all- this is the best IMO! Also cleans out other junk too. It's 
usually good for about 1GB if you haven't cleaned up stuff in a while.  Look 
on forum for link to download.  I use version 3.1- the more recent ones have 
had problems.

Robert Crawford
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

[Benno Schulenberg]

CR Little wrote:
> So I went into /usr/portage and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G

Use eclean.

> I then went into /usr/src and ran du -sh and it shows as 1.5G
> also

Use 'emerge --prune gentoo-sources'.

> Next, what will happen if I rm -rf /usr/portage will the next
> emerge sync rebuild it?

It would.  But better use eclean, it's part of gentoolkit.

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

[Robert Crawford]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:13, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> CR Little


CR Little,
Please post output of df -h, and your /etc/fstab. From the posts on your 
problem, I can't tell what's what- looks lke all is on /usr, as its own 
partition.
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