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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMtN6wNY5K4350=Sd3UyPsPmnf64tjHpTJsrz+28cgJ2pXyeA@mail.gmail.com>

trevor donahue writes:

> 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 ...

Use eclean-dist and eclean-pkg (in app-portage/gentoolkit) to delete your
distfiles.

If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved space for
the superuser, which is 5% as default:
tune2fs -m 2 /dev/your/partition
Don't reduce it to 0, the lower this value is, the more fragmentation you
will get.

> 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?

You need to find out for yourself. I sometimes simply do a du -mx
--max-depth=1 / to see which directory has what amount of data in it.
Repeat for interesting directories like /usr/share/doc, and you will see
what takes big space. Add a '| sort -n' to get sorted output. Or better
use sys-fs/ncdu which is interactive.

If you prefer something graphical, there are many alternatives:

Baobab in gnome-extra/gnome-utils
kde-base/filelight
k4dirstat in kde-misc/kdirstat
Konqueror -> View -> View Mode -> File Size View (or something like that
in English)
jdiskreport in sys-fs/jdiskreport-bin

	Wonko



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28 11:37 [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! trevor donahue
2012-02-28 11:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-28 13:37   ` William Kenworthy
2012-02-28 11:57 ` Mick
2012-02-28 11:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-28 12:24 ` [gentoo-user] " YoYo Siska
2012-02-28 12:50   ` trevor donahue
2012-02-28 13:25     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 13:01 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2012-02-28 13:27   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 23:25     ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29  0:32       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29  1:05         ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29  6:22           ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29  9:29       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29  9:57         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 10:40           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 11:08             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 12:11               ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-01  0:59                 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-01  9:54                   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 23:59             ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-01  0:43               ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-29  0:48   ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2012-02-29  1:01     ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29  2:38       ` Dale
2012-02-29  6:17         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29  7:10           ` Dale
2012-02-29  7:49             ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29  9:23             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-01  1:09               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-01  8:26                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29  9:53             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29  9:19         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 14:44           ` Dale
2012-02-29  7:43       ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29 13:06         ` Daddy
2012-02-29 14:44         ` Dale
2012-02-28 16:14 ` James Broadhead

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