no space left on hd?

josephdrivein · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 39

I think portage is using a lot of space on my hd.
I have just two big apps: kde and gimp (no OO). And, as I write, have 7.4GB on my hd, it seems a bit too much, doesn't it?

I think portage has filled my partition up with half-built packages and source code. Am I right?
What should I do to clean?

nephros · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:22 am Post subject:

There are myraids of tools and threads on these Forums dealing with that problem.
Try a search for "clean distfiles portage" and you should find plenty.

The main culprits are /var/tmp/portage which gets cluttered by source trees of failed compiles, and ${DISTDIR} which fills up with the source tarballs, as you suspected.

One of the tools is eclean which you can find in app-portage/gentoolkit.
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JeliJami · Veteran Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 1086 Location: Belgium

yeah,

just wanted to say: search for "portage disk space clean remove", and you'll find plenty

nephros, what's up with your signature?
why would one be a moron for adding [solved] in the subject line?
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tomk · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads, please see this FAQ: SA1: Running out of disk space.
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