Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
On 4/26/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I don't know if this is *obvious* or not, but you might che

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-05-04 Thread Florian Philipp
> I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant If you like experimenting, you might consider this: http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/ I've not tested it myself and I've not even read

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread William Kenworthy
depends: I have been caught with a non-bootable system a few times and its much easier to start from an existing config and go from there (After numerous disasters, I wont use genkernel - even if its supposedly ok these days) A (very) few in-tree stuff still seems to want a kernel (vmware-modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Grant
> I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant localepurge "Total disk space freed by localepurge: 66836K" Maybe just the edge I needed. Hope I didn't hose the system. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 27. April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:12:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only > > > remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus > > > one other "good" version as a b

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:12:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only > > remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus > > one other "good" version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to > > roll back ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 27. April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove > what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other > "good" version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll > back ... :) emm, no. Not danger

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Alex Fansky
В сообщении от Thursday 26 April 2007 17:59:19 Grant написал(а): > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant eclean-dist can help you. -- Alex V. Fansky Minsk, BSU signature.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
Watch this one! I ended up with a seriously broken system after running localepurge - make sure you have your locale sorted out first! But it can save quite a lot of space - pity the system was dead in the water ... reiserfs is more space efficient than other filesystems like ext2/3 (depending o

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello fire-eyes, > 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) No it's not - if you delete the portage directory, portage will simply recreate it when it needs it. -- Neil Bothwick Fer sail cheep, Windows spel chekcer, wurks grate signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread fire-eyes
Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here: 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) 2) rm -r /usr/por

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Grant wrote: > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? > > - Grant localepurge rm -rf /var/tmp/ using reiserfs stop using -O3 rm -rf /usr/src/linux* --

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 April 2007, Grant wrote: > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard > disk space? Delete all your music. ;-) Seriously, get another one. Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linu

RE: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Nelson, David J
> -Original Message- > From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 April 2007 15:59 > To: Gentoo mailing list > Subject: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage > > > I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for > reducing usage. Are

[gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Grant
I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list