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 1S2Lkx-0002pP-GB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:02:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1761BE0954; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 959F2E093E for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217F61B400F for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.845 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.845 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.066, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fnupEftF1Q_E for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06B281B400C for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2Lip-0005kN-ST for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:59:59 +0100 Received: from athedsl-354573.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.240.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:59:59 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-354573.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:59:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Freeing up disk space problem!! Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:59:46 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-354573.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120213 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: bb648947-3aa6-4416-baba-b0017f0632e1 X-Archives-Hash: b17453cce0c1c853202c155b8c1a14d5 On 28/02/12 13:37, trevor donahue wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for > several months now and I simply lllooove it! > 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 ... > 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? Install sys-fs/ncdu and run it as root with "ncdu -x /". It's gonna take a bit to scan everything, but after that you should be able to tell what's taking up all the space.