From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hh84N-0007N9-5t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:47:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3QHkmk4021503; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:46:48 GMT Received: from fire-eyes.org (fire-eyes.org [213.131.245.99]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3QHgcU9016889 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:42:38 GMT Received: from fire-eyes.org ([213.131.245.99]) by fire-eyes.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hh822-0001uF-NE for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:45:27 +0000 Message-ID: <4630E536.3040108@fire-eyes.org> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:45:26 +0000 From: fire-eyes User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070420) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage References: <49bf44f10704260759g214dbb00o40c674ca7167cdd2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10704260759g214dbb00o40c674ca7167cdd2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "eskimo", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Grant wrote: > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here: [...] Content analysis details: (-3.6 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.8 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Archives-Salt: 90a5b06e-92ea-4e94-8fc8-96c97468c188 X-Archives-Hash: 63176b4d87e0ed2faee06e789fc27432 Grant wrote: > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here: 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) 2) rm -r /usr/portage/distfiles/* 3) Keep your kernel sources compressed until you need them. This saves about 190MB or something: cd /usr/src/ ; tar cj linux-`uname -r` -f linux-`uname -r`-COMPRESSED.tar.bz2 && rm -r linux-`uname -r` obviously you'll have to untar and re-delete that tree if you actually need it. Here's a new one. Once you have more space, IF you have kde, filelight is a nice way to see space usage and track it down quickly and see it in a great visual format. Be sure to go into its settings, though, and tell it to cross filesystem boundaries, and also show small files. I'll also agree that reiserfs (3) is nice in that by default it packs tails, i.e. compresses the ends of blocks. Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list