From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S2Pit-0002pF-3G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:16:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BC26E08BE; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8502DE082F for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaoo28 with SMTP id o28so4968016iao.40 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:15:07 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jamesbroadhead@gmail.com designates 10.50.169.5 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.50.169.5; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jamesbroadhead@gmail.com designates 10.50.169.5 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jamesbroadhead@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=jamesbroadhead@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.50.169.5]) by 10.50.169.5 with SMTP id aa5mr16888699igc.17.1330445707162 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:15:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=vXqctn3kEtwvJRPfNmaMS5h18o3bl3KMBknFwp6OeKw=; b=SCkQDSWusW/5F5cOGKMm1Rr7WHT58su5aNJYVp7lsPN4IHBI2RF5qnTKjWKytInxIC q9Iy67J17wjripcWqlShKs0KgE1nDC4QhFBTZBfuaF7Gl7PZZUar4CNxHWeSb9DnUdZw drIuDyy7oVP6FFgEDGJ1ZwyF4oobDqizyHTSM= Received: by 10.50.169.5 with SMTP id aa5mr13792068igc.17.1330445707115; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:15:07 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.222.201 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:14:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: James Broadhead Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:14:47 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 54ff8ee2-b2ef-41f9-86bf-f9b35319fa44 X-Archives-Hash: 59acd9c0f5584859683037222e80cac6 On 28 February 2012 11:37, trevor donahue wrote: > 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 ... Lots of good advice already, but I thought that I'd chime in to suggest that you use `eclean` to free up space in distfiles, but only removing downloaded files which aren't going to be used again. This means that you don't need to re-download if you re-merge, and lightens server load. Another obvious suggestion: unless you're on a very constrained system, consider re-partitioning to give yourself more root space -- I very happily ran gentoo inside ~7 GiB for a very long time without needing to shuffle things about. I recently bought one of these and a 16GiB SD card to quickly add space to my HTPC without disassembly (and warranty-voiding). http://www.dealextreme.com/p/kawau-world-s-smallest-microsd-transflash-tf-sd-sdhc-usb-2-0-card-reader-keychain-25558