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

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