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 1S5axQ-0004R8-Ux for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:52:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76735E06D0; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD7CE06BF for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64511B4022 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:51:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.853 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.853 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.058, 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 QW03WupCpveH for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:51:04 +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 C5A8F1B4024 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S5avx-000597-MV for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:50:57 +0100 Received: from athedsl-350246.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.223.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:50:57 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-350246.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:50:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:50:40 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120308025700.GA11477@eisen.lan> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-350246.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120302 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120308025700.GA11477@eisen.lan> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2239bbc0-3d2d-4cfc-bb1b-6e5087960b52 X-Archives-Hash: 9f11d22aa3ac9c81f115b480e0b16909 On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports > considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (every= thing > except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this come= s to > be, since I have /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. > > I am in the middle of a KDE upgrade (4.8.0=E2=86=924.8.1) right now and= before I > started, I downloaded all distfiles and then looked at df /, it showed = 1022 > blocks, hence about 1 GB of free disk space. I am at package 115 out of= 174 > right now, and df shows a mere 389k blocks remaining. That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are in=20 use. When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack=20 (/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal. Or simply reboot.