[gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[João Matos]

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Hi list,

First of all, sorry for the English. Second,

I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for ten years. Single installation,
unique. The system changed a lot and it seems to be using more and more
space at / partition.

I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've found
many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex folder, for
instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't even know if is
still been used.

Is there anything else safe to delete? Is 30 GB insufficient space for a
Gentoo desktop? Some times I have problems to compile packages like
libreoffice, that requires lots of free space.

Thank u all in advance,

-- 
João Neto
Linux User #461527
http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Ian Bloss]

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Have you emerge -avc lately?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 16:58 João Matos <jaoneto@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> First of all, sorry for the English. Second,
>
> I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for ten years. Single installation,
> unique. The system changed a lot and it seems to be using more and more
> space at / partition.
>
> I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've found
> many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex folder, for
> instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't even know if is
> still been used.
>
> Is there anything else safe to delete? Is 30 GB insufficient space for a
> Gentoo desktop? Some times I have problems to compile packages like
> libreoffice, that requires lots of free space.
>
> Thank u all in advance,
>
>
> --
> João Neto
> Linux User #461527
> http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[João Matos]

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2016-08-26 21:10 GMT-03:00 Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@gmail.com>:

> Have you emerge -avc lately?
>
Yep. No packages selected for removal by depclean.

 Filelight helped a lot. I've cleaned 3 GB of logs and some other obvious
files. Now I have 18 GB of free space :)



>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 16:58 João Matos <jaoneto@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> First of all, sorry for the English. Second,
>>
>> I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for ten years. Single
>> installation, unique. The system changed a lot and it seems to be using
>> more and more space at / partition.
>>
>> I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've found
>> many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex folder, for
>> instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't even know if is
>> still been used.
>>
>> Is there anything else safe to delete? Is 30 GB insufficient space for a
>> Gentoo desktop? Some times I have problems to compile packages like
>> libreoffice, that requires lots of free space.
>>
>> Thank u all in advance,
>>
>>
>> --
>> João Neto
>> Linux User #461527
>> http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
>>
>


-- 
João Neto
Linux User #461527
http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Ian Bloss]

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Nice

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 17:58 João Matos <jaoneto@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-08-26 21:10 GMT-03:00 Ian Bloss <ianlinkcd@gmail.com>:
>
>> Have you emerge -avc lately?
>>
> Yep. No packages selected for removal by depclean.
>
>  Filelight helped a lot. I've cleaned 3 GB of logs and some other obvious
> files. Now I have 18 GB of free space :)
>
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 16:58 João Matos <jaoneto@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> First of all, sorry for the English. Second,
>>>
>>> I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for ten years. Single
>>> installation, unique. The system changed a lot and it seems to be using
>>> more and more space at / partition.
>>>
>>> I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've
>>> found many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex folder,
>>> for instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't even know if
>>> is still been used.
>>>
>>> Is there anything else safe to delete? Is 30 GB insufficient space for a
>>> Gentoo desktop? Some times I have problems to compile packages like
>>> libreoffice, that requires lots of free space.
>>>
>>> Thank u all in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> João Neto
>>> Linux User #461527
>>> http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> João Neto
> Linux User #461527
> http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
>

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[gentoo-user] Re: How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2016-08-26 21:57, João Matos wrote:

>  Filelight helped a lot. I've cleaned 3 GB of logs and some other
> obvious files. Now I have 18 GB of free space :)

What is filelight?

I know I could google it (or rather, duckygo it), but that would
probably take some megabytes of http/html, unlike this plaintext email.
So I have an excuse :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I really clean up gentoo?

[David Haller]

Hello,

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>On 2016-08-26 21:57, João Matos wrote:
>>  Filelight helped a lot. I've cleaned 3 GB of logs and some other
>> obvious files. Now I have 18 GB of free space :)
>
>What is filelight?
>
>I know I could google it (or rather, duckygo it), but that would
>probably take some megabytes of http/html, unlike this plaintext email.
>So I have an excuse :-)

No you don't! *THWUP*

$ eix filelight

And, lo and behold, for once the URL differs from just "kde.org".

HTH,
-dnh

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Mick]

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On Saturday 27 Aug 2016 06:32:54 David Haller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> >On 2016-08-26 21:57, João Matos wrote:
> >>  Filelight helped a lot. I've cleaned 3 GB of logs and some other

Don't you use logrotate?  It is more effective than manually cleaning logs.

> >> obvious files. Now I have 18 GB of free space :)
> >
> >What is filelight?

You could also use 'du -h -s'

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Alarig Le Lay]

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On Sat Aug 27 08:12:53 2016, Mick wrote:
> You could also use 'du -h -s'

sys-fs/ncdu is also very useful.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:33:39 +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote:

> > You could also use 'du -h -s'  
> 
> sys-fs/ncdu is also very useful.

Yes, ncdu is basically a console version of filelight, and very useful.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Velilind's Laws of Experimentation:
1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once.
2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:57:09 -0300, João Matos wrote:

> I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've
> found many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex
> folder, for instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't
> even know if is still been used.

Portage only cleans up files it installed. So if you installed Plex,
added a few GB of movies and then uninstalled it, the movies are still
there. Portage cleans up after its actions, you have to clean up after
yours :-)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[P Levine]

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A while back I used find_cruft <https://github.com/vaeth/find_cruft/> (mv
overlay <http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-portage/find_cruft>).  IIRC, I had to
do a lot of configuration to eliminate most false positives but it left me
with a very thorough list of files worth deleting.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:57:09 -0300, João Matos wrote:
>
> > I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've
> > found many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex
> > folder, for instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't
> > even know if is still been used.
>
> Portage only cleans up files it installed. So if you installed Plex,
> added a few GB of movies and then uninstalled it, the movies are still
> there. Portage cleans up after its actions, you have to clean up after
> yours :-)
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist ?
>

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