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dargosch
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 Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject: Cleaning up my system... |
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Hi all,
I installed Gentoo on my work PPC laptop with a limited hardrive.
Since I have to keep Mac OS on it too  , you can see that I am a bit worried about the size of gentoo..
So, now I am wondering if there is something I could do to reduce the size of the installation... cache cleanups and source removal and so on.. 
Thankful for all the tips I can get.  |
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bonsaikitten
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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* remove all files in /usr/portage/distfiles
* remove all files in /usr/portage/packages
if you need another 100Megs and don't plan to upgrade any package:
*remove /usr/portage
there might also be temporary files in /tmp , /var/tmp |
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Lycander
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| bonsaikitten wrote: | if you need another 100Megs and don't plan to upgrade any package:
*remove /usr/portage |
I don't recall /usr/portage being upwards to 100 Megs. The portage directory with just the ebuild files and such and empty /distfiles and /packages is roughly 10 Megs for me.
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bonsaikitten
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| rsync transfers ~45MB, with filesystem overhead it can expand to ~100MB, I even heard 250MB on ext2 |
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Lycander
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Ahh, silly me. I forgot about the overhead of journaling file systems. I stand corrected!
To be honest, I came up with that 10 Meg figure from the Gentoo docs, plus rsyncing didn't seem like it was downloading a whole lot, yet I have no way of actually measuring the amount of data transfered.
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bonsaikitten
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ehhh.. What overhead of yournalling filesystems?
ext3 has exactly the same requirements as ext2, so files take the exact same amount of space.
du-h /usr/portage:
973M /usr/portage/distfiles
176K /usr/portage/packages
1.2G /usr/portage
--> ~250MB in /usr/portage ...
(Maybe I should clean the distfiles directory  ) |
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dargosch
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 7:55 am Post subject: |
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| bonsaikitten wrote: | * remove all files in /usr/portage/distfiles
* remove all files in /usr/portage/packages
if you need another 100Megs and don't plan to upgrade any package:
*remove /usr/portage
there might also be temporary files in /tmp , /var/tmp |
This solved my space requirements.. 900 Megs in distfiles cleaned..  |
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og-phantom
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 9:50 am Post subject: size of /usr/portage |
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wow, i dont feel so lucky
du -h /usr/portage
1.5G /usr/portage/distfiles
1.8G /usr/portage
120Gig HDs come in handy  |
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