From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-167770-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1861383E0 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C0CC21C036; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22DF121C002 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C58E31A348 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:57:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Mbi4ZgIrqxJs for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:57:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-104-157-244-187.dyn.295.ca [104.157.244.187]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 25D7B31A990 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:57:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:57:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:57:57 -0400 From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition Message-ID: <20151001125757.GA1089@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <560D2A0E.5080708@sys-concept.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <560D2A0E.5080708@sys-concept.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: adb64802-e41a-43d9-95ef-8b3a80d1cb23 X-Archives-Hash: 905f552efacb94369d5b972619234571 151001 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: > How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there. > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 74G 61G 9.3G 87% / > I've already removed all the files from /usr/portage/distfiles . 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'. that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff. My system shows : root:505 ~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 802 30G 6.4G 24G 22% / tmpfs 395M 516K 395M 1% /run dev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda5 30G 12G 19G 40% /home /dev/sda6 15G 6.7G 8.4G 45% /usr/portage /dev/sda7 40G 8.1G 32G 21% /z /dev/sdb1 9.8G 3.5G 6.3G 36% /usr/local /dev/sdb5 9.8G 1.6G 8.3G 16% /usr/src tmpfs 2.0G 8.0K 2.0G 1% /tmp /z is a large hangar space for handling very big files. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca