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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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.



-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com