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dummy
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 Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: Out of harddisk [SOLVED] |
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I installed on a 4 GB harddisk in VMware.
df -H
| Code: | Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 3.7G 3.7G 0G 100% /
udev 131 156K 130M 1% /dev
/dev/sda1 40M 3.2M 35M 9% /boot
none 131M 0 131M 0% /dev/shm |
All I have installed is gnome.
Can I do anything about it?
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you could clean your distfiles (/usr/portage/distfiles), /tmp and /var/tmp.
i think you should give gentoo more than 4gb, though...
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dummy
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I should have mentioned that I am a newbie.
| mdeininger wrote: | | you could clean your distfiles (/usr/portage/distfiles), /tmp and /var/tmp. |
How do I do that?
Then a bit of topic.
Do anyone know if I can simply backup the files from my virtual drive. Make a new harddisk and move the files back.
Ill go search at the vm forum, just dropping the question. |
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not sure i'm afraid, i'm not working with vmware. you can always tar things up, copy the tar somewhere and untar it back. (there's a howto on that in the "documentation, tips & tricks" section of these forums, just search for "stage4")
you can erase files on the console using the rm command. example:
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rm -Rf /usr/portage/distfiles/*
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to clean all files in the distfiles directory. make sure to use /* at the end, else you will erase the directory itself, and you will need to recreate it using:
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mkdir /usr/portage/distfiles
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make sure not to erase important directories with this command. also, you will need to be logged in as root on the console in order to do this.
you could use nautilus too, but then you would need to log into gnome as root, or start nautilus as root, neither of which is something that shouldn't be done in general.
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| Thank you, ill try to move it to a bigger harddisk. |
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