Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:48 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:35:24 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo > > > Live CDs should have it. > > > > Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both. > > That must be

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:35:24 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo Live > > CDs should have it. > > Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both. That must be quite new, the last time I looked Knoppix had neither. Thanks for the up

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:08 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +, Mick wrote: > > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a > > LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the > > good ol' primary & logical partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +, Mick wrote: > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a > LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the > good ol' primary & logical partitions? Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 10:43 schrieb ext Mick: > > For future installations you should consider using some kind of logical > > volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning, together with an > > online-resizable filesystem. > > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boo

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 24 November 2006 11:43, Mick wrote: > On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make > > a different proposal. > > > > If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and > > link the new partit

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make a > different proposal. > > If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and link the > new partition to your /usr partition, using EVMS's drive-link plugi

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 23. November 2006 16:36 schrieb ext Allan Spagnol Comar: > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr > partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB > remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk ( > /home/portage ) and I

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 23 November 2006 19:07, Bira wrote: > You can also delete stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles - this directory > is a cache of the source code portage downloads. If you don't mind > downloading some of them again the next time you update your system, > it's a nice way to clear some space.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Bira
On 11/23/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: linux sources in /usr/src unneeded man pages and stuff with localpurge almost everything in /usr/share/doc You can also delete stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles - this directory is a cache of the source code portage downloads. If yo

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thanks. On 11/23/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:36, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post. > > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr > partition of 3.0GB in a prod

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:36, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post. > > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr > partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB > remaining ) the portage distf

[gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post. I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk ( /home/portage ) and I do not know what