On 28 February 2012 11:37, trevor donahue <donahue.tre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ...
Lots of good advice already, but I thought that I'd chime in to suggest that you use `eclean` to free up space in distfiles, but only removing downloaded files which aren't going to be used again. This means that you don't need to re-download if you re-merge, and lightens server load. Another obvious suggestion: unless you're on a very constrained system, consider re-partitioning to give yourself more root space -- I very happily ran gentoo inside ~7 GiB for a very long time without needing to shuffle things about. I recently bought one of these and a 16GiB SD card to quickly add space to my HTPC without disassembly (and warranty-voiding). http://www.dealextreme.com/p/kawau-world-s-smallest-microsd-transflash-tf-sd-sdhc-usb-2-0-card-reader-keychain-25558