wow that was fast!!!! thanks a lot guys! done some research, turns out in home there is a .cache and the folder chromium there takes nearly 600mb, cleared chromium browsing / download history, cleared the cache. that freed it.
Nikos Chantziaras, thanks, will test it tonight YoYo Siska, thanks for the good idea, put -doc in make.conf and "nodoc" in FEATURES On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:24 PM, YoYo Siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:37:44AM +0000, 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). > > My usual suspect for disk space in /usr/share/doc is kdelibs, with the > doc use flag turned on it installs the whole kde api documentation, > which takes a lot of space ... so I either set -doc for > kde-base/kdelibs, or just set -doc globally and just enable it for > things i now I might need... (note that that won't remove all of the > /usr/share/doc dirs / files, but removes most of the large ones...) > > > yoyo > > > > > > So the questions are ... in cases like this, what should be done? what is > > storing this much space? logs? > >
