Free 100Mb+ of space!!

holmis · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Sweden

Hey, I did this

tukem · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject:

One reason for having 4GB instead of 3GB is that you have a lot of libraries laying around that you wouldn't need in redhat. The number of installed kernel sources is also worth checking. I have 4 kernel versions in /usr/src and it takes 650MB.

krustofan · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 1

Scottaroo · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:38 pm Post subject: Diskspace and OpenOffice

holmis · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Sweden

Well,,,, I realised that I may have made a mistake. I could perhaps have mistaken another disk with my root partition. :oops:

After emerging OO I was surprised to see I was left with only slightly above 2 GB occupied disk space (instead of 4 as when I started the emerge). This seems unlikely and my other disk is still occupied to something like 4.1 GB and there haven't been many changes on that.

I will never know how it really was, but I believe it was a mistake. Glad I'm not an admin somewhere right now. :wink:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Can I remove /usr/portage/packages/All tbz2 files?

helmers · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:45 pm Post subject:

Guess I'm just spoiled, I've got 3 120GB HD's, and I don't really care about the size of my distfiles dir. :roll:

But what I don't like very much is that portage doesn't clean up the /var/tmp/portage/* directory on its own.

Is is safe to remove everything inside /var/tmp and /tmp? If so, I'd like to add it to my /etc/conf.d/local.stop. :wink:

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bludger · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 389

This script did not work perfectly for me, in that it deleted the X430src-1.tgz - X430src-4.tgz files (it left the fifth file though). This means that if I wanted to recompile X, I would have to download everything again.

Rather than just compare the filenames in this directory, the script should really delete source files not owned by any installed packages. Ideally this should be integrated into the emerge or some other portage command.

angill · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:33 pm Post subject: Re: Free 100Mb+ of space!!

mihochan · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 4:52 am Post subject:

This might be useful https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=88832&highlight=
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X · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:06 am Post subject:

I use something like this to get rid of stuff in distfiles or /tmp or wherever

kitano · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:30 am Post subject:

smith · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 222

matbintang · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Canada

Stu_28 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 129

You could just use the mtime, unless you are touching those files after you install, that should be good enough. Also, tmpreaper is a nice replacement for the find method on a multi-user box (it's a little more resistant to exploits than find):

deadhead · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 25

I installed MySQL for the first time with Gentoo on a development server with plenty of diskspace. Developed a PHP application that used it with no problems. After I put this application on another machine and into production environment for about a month, I noticed that 1/4 the drivespace was gone. Panic, deep breath.

It seems that the default configuration of MySQL that gentoo installed had logging of all queries turned on. Whatever handles rotating logfiles was not configured to handle this log. As a matter of fact IIRC, the log file was in a weird place as well. I found the setting in my.cnf and deleted the 4G file. Whew! MySQL ebuild seems to have changed to a more sane default config now.

gava77 · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject:

Does anyone know if there is a forum or other location where the installed size of programmes are stated. I am a low grade system user and have only left 250 Mb of free space at the moment, so for me space management is very important.
I'd like, for instance, to install MySQL, PHP and Apache but I do not know if I have enough space. I also searched for a function in emerge to gather the size of an ebuild after compiling, but obviously there is no one.
Do some more advanced users have tips for me?
Thank's for answering!

neuronal · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject:

Hi

Some months ago I've made another simple bash-script to free space. It's very simple. You can found here with some explanations (in spanish).

Greetings!
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mlsfit138 · Guru Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 406 Location: Washington

franoculator · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject:

latz-twn · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

For me adding in the make.conf

AUTOCLEAN="yes"

worked fine

dkaplowitz · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject:

I tried this, but now when I do an

madCoder|GN · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 80

For those of you who may have a cvs-src directory under distfiles/, the shell script on the first page will likely not work for you. Try this instead:

dkaplowitz · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:

zfc-tinkerer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 126

One caution here:

If your networking uses a separate package you emerge, then you don't want to clean the version you're using out of distfiles, or else when you recompile your kernel, you won't have a network module, and you can't emerge it because you can't get to the network! :oops:

I found this out the hard way by having to use the boot disk to get the NforceNet module reinstalled on my machine. If you do delete it in cleaning this directory out it's not a big deal, just run emerge -f <name of your module>