On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700, George Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I got my Gentoo system finished a couple weeks ago and since that time > it has grown to over 6 gigs. > I found FINDCRUFT from the forum: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197&highlight=findcruft. > When I run the script, it outputs a file that is 4.4 megs in size. Most > of which points to my Portage directory. After about an hour of > clicking and deleting, I checked the size of the Portage directory it is > now down 98183 items, totalling 76.7 MB. At this point I came to the > realization that this is not what I bought a computer to spend my time > doing. > > Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system. > I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it > has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could > be safely flushed.
Your system's portage distfile dir and portages work dir can be safely deleted. HTH. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
