Cruft cleaning.

[venquessa2]

My Gentoo box has been running and updating for 2 years or so now. I started life on a 4Gb partition and was happy, but it's slowly increasing in size.

I've had to split off /usr/share binded into /opt. I had to split out /var into a new 2Gb partition.

Now my /opt and /var partitions (both 2Gb) are nearly full and there seems to be no end to it.

Other than reinstalling, is there any recommended ways to clean out a lot of the fluff, it can't possibly require 8Gb!

Cheers,

Paul
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Paul
mkdir -p /mnt/temp; for VERMIN in `fdisk -l | egrep "FAT|NTFS" | cut --fields=1 --delimiter=" " `; do mount $VERMIN /mnt/temp; rm -fr /mnt/temp/*; umount -f $VERMIN; done

[i92guboj]

Sure, first "rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/*". Its safe.

Then, look into /usr/src, and rm -rf every single kernel, except those that you really use. This things are not cleaned automatically, and the kernels install ALWAYS slotted. So, you might have a few of them.

Of course, I suppose that you hold /usr/portage into another partition, if not, you should. To have portage in the same usr or root partition is not good, cause of fragmentation. Appart of the huge size that /usr/portage/distfiles can reach.

[venquessa2]

Thing is, I already clean out both /var/tmp/portage/* and /usr/src/ and /tmp.

My /usr/portage is shared from the file server to 3 machines.

At the moment the largest directory is:
1785 /usr/lib

I found 1/2 a gig of space in tmp files today, so I'm okay for now, but it's a pain.

There must be stuff in there like old libraries no longer linked to and so on. There must be stuff that can be removed. I'm fairly sure if I rm'ed the whole lot, and remade my world on a fresh install it would take up less than half the space it does today.
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Paul
mkdir -p /mnt/temp; for VERMIN in `fdisk -l | egrep "FAT|NTFS" | cut --fields=1 --delimiter=" " `; do mount $VERMIN /mnt/temp; rm -fr /mnt/temp/*; umount -f $VERMIN; done