Cleaning up System

CooKies37 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 127

hi, i got my gentoo install in sda7, 9GB, and now i got 45% free disk space, after i perform emerge openoffice,
it occur error somewhere and quit. so, i check with df, and i got :

/dev/sda7 100% /

being used!!! i can't do anything if my disk space run out!! so, what can i do to remove all those unsuccessful emerge files? i want to clean up my system. how can i do that? which directory or files is definately safe to delete? please help... thanks 1st... ^.^

KiberGus · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:53 am Post subject:

All packages are build in
/var/tmp/portage/
so clean up this directory.

alistair · Retired Dev Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 869

well this one is one that is up to you. if you use a modem or hate wasting your dl consider this a last resort

rm /usr/portage/distfiles/*

that will remove all the packages that you have downloaded for installation.
if you do remove that you could save a lot of space but u will have to redownload them to reinstall/recompile the package. This may or may not be a problem [for you]
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CooKies37 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 127

B33FC4K3 · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject:

You'll have to re-download all distribution files on updates and recompiles.

If your installation is not totally new, then you probably have old distribution files with the new ones, so you might want to try this:
1.) Go to /usr/portage/distfiles and remove a few files that are obvously obsolete (to get a few MBs)
2.) emerge gentoolkit
3.) Run eclean-dist

tomk · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

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