no more free space on /usr :(

[daniel1988]

survivor@tux ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 2.6G 629M 1.9G 26% /
udev 251M 2.6M 248M 2% /dev
/dev/hda2 92M 2.8M 84M 4% /boot
/dev/hda7 3.8G 3.6G 6.2M 100% /usr
/dev/hda8 2.4G 797M 1.5G 35% /home
/dev/hda1 28G 21G 7.2G 74% /win-c
none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm


What should I do:
1. play with LVM
2. stage4, change partitions sizes, rool-back gentoo
3. u suggest


Regards,
Daniel

[BlackEdder]

3. rm /usr/portage/distfiles/* -rf

[daniel1988]

Folder /usr/portage/distfiles uses "only" 224MB of space (I clean it regularly)
I need even more (want to install KDE 3.5, and other huge things).

[linuxtuxhellsinki]

U've to shrink that lousy 1st partition, it takes too much space
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[BlackEdder]

3. see which subdir takes a lot of space and move it to one of the other partitions. Then nmount it with mount -b on it's old position.

Or just move the whole portage tree to another position and set PORTDIR in your make.conf

[rev138]

[daniel1988]

[BlackEdder]

Let's go with moving the protage dir, because it is the easiest to do. It will only give you 360 mb extra space on /usr, but you are low on diskspace all around, so diskspace will always stay a problem.

Where is basically your choice, but I will go with the root partition now, because it should be able to host thos extra 360 mb.

[pjp]

Read the FAQ. SA1: Running out of disk space
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[davidgurvich]

Eliminate windows. That will get you 28GB right away.
Seriously, you don't need 28GB for windows.

[bluedevils]

do you have a desktop with good disk space? I'd move your stuff from home onto the desktop as temporary storage. I'd also unmerge some of the non essential software (open office, maybe?) and hope you can get it small enough to fit on the root partition. Remember you can re emerge it again later. Once you've emptied hda7 and hda8, you should be able to combine them to make a healthier /usr size. /home could eventualy go onto the root partition as it is almost 800MB and you have almost 2GB left on root.

to find the worst offenders for disk space, go to the base of a partition and run

du -kax|sort -rn|more

or the quick answer, cp the worst offenders to /home or / and make a link

[masseya]

You might also be interested in Cleaning out stale distfiles.
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[daniel1988]

Thanks for your responses...
What do you think about moving /usr/share on root partition and making a symlink like this beneath?
ln -s /share /usr/share

Regards,
Daniel

[morodoch]

If disc space under /usr/share is a problem, it may be your docs. Check out localepurge:

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/app-admin/localepurge
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[linuxtuxhellsinki]

Thanks 4 a tip, it freed over 60MB of useless stuff from my disk. Some French man-pages etc....
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[Shedoks]

at 1st place 4 windows it enough 10gb for all usuall software including some games.
If u have a desktop you can keep your distfiles on it and use it with samba.
This will give you aditionali free space.