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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 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?

Gentoo takes up more space than a conventional binary distro because of 
portage and source files in /usr/portage/distfiles.

Look at eclean to help you remove old package files no longer installed.

Also look at logrotate to help you automatically rotate, compress and delete 
old(er) log files.

As a matter of good practice I always fit /var/ on a different partition to 
guard against logs going overboard and running out of space.
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Regards,
Mick

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