On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012 11:37:44 trevor donahue wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for > several months now and I simply lllooove it! > So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without > updating the current pack of installed software (emerge -uD world), I am > left without disk space... In situations like this I start deleting > /var/tmp/*, /tmp/*, /usr/portage/distfiles/*, maybe do even a > revdep-rebuild to fix something, but even then I'm left with no more then > 100 mb, which obviously is not enough ... > So this time I googled a bit and I deleted all the /usr/share/doc/ and this > left me with 2.5 gb of space (wow). > > So the questions are ... in cases like this, what should be done? what is > storing this much space? logs?
Gentoo takes up more space than a conventional binary distro because of portage and source files in /usr/portage/distfiles. Look at eclean to help you remove old package files no longer installed. Also look at logrotate to help you automatically rotate, compress and delete old(er) log files. As a matter of good practice I always fit /var/ on a different partition to guard against logs going overboard and running out of space. -- Regards, Mick
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