Re: [gentoo-user] disk (not) full?

2003-02-02 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
Well another pitfall is that noone payes attention to the size of the logs that are being kept in /var/log. If you don't install logrotate or any other program that will remove really old entries from your logs then after a couple of months you may end up with some quite big (>100MB) log files

Re: [gentoo-user] disk (not) full?

2003-02-01 Thread Volker Hemmann
On Friday 31 January 2003 23:57, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I have gentoo installed in a 6G partition. After upgrading kde to 3.1 I > ran into problems apparently related to lack of disk space: an open emacs > file could not be saved, cannot login from gdm, ... > df -h gives 5.7G used and 0 available.

Re: [gentoo-user] disk (not) full?

2003-02-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: > /var/tmp/portage can be removed safely as it is the place where the packages are >unpacked and compiled before installation. After the emerging has been completed the folder can be safely removed. On the next emerging the necessary folders and f

Re: [gentoo-user] disk (not) full?

2003-02-01 Thread Theofilos Intzoglou
/var/tmp/portage can be removed safely as it is the place where the packages are unpacked and compiled before installation. After the emerging has been completed the folder can be safely removed. On the next emerging the necessary folders and files will be automatically created again. On Sat, 1

Re: [gentoo-user] disk (not) full?

2003-02-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Nick Jones wrote: > > I have gentoo installed in a 6G partition. After upgrading kde to 3.1 I > > ran into problems apparently related to lack of disk space: an open emacs > > file could not be saved, cannot login from gdm, ... > > df -h gives 5.7G used and 0 available. The

Re: [gentoo-user] disk (not) full?

2003-01-31 Thread Nick Jones
> I have gentoo installed in a 6G partition. After upgrading kde to 3.1 I > ran into problems apparently related to lack of disk space: an open emacs > file could not be saved, cannot login from gdm, ... > df -h gives 5.7G used and 0 available. The weird thing is that I booted > from a redhat pa

[gentoo-user] disk (not) full?

2003-01-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have gentoo installed in a 6G partition. After upgrading kde to 3.1 I ran into problems apparently related to lack of disk space: an open emacs file could not be saved, cannot login from gdm, ... df -h gives 5.7G used and 0 available. The weird thing is that I booted from a redhat partition an