James wrote: > Hello, > > Well a 'df' is quite ugly on my portable, as both /var and /usr > are each 10 G and are over 90%. > > on /var, I: > cd /var/tmp/portage > rm -r * > > Figuring that I can download everything anew. > > Disk usage Dropped to less than 5%...OK > > on /usr > > I wacked /usr/src except for the current kernel tree > saving ~1.6 G.... > > However, if memory servers, folks have in the past recommended wacking > /usr/portage to some degree to get control over disk space. Here I'm a > little more cautious. > du -hx --max-depth=1 /usr > reveals: > > 59M /usr/qt > 160M /usr/bin > 924M /usr/kde > 1.1G /usr/lib > 2.1G /usr/src <before aforementioned pruning> > 6.5M /usr/sbin > 5.5M /usr/kdevbdb > 2.5M /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu > 228K /usr/games > 0 /usr/local > 1.8G /usr/share > 500K /usr/libexec > 49M /usr/include > 3.7G /usr/portage > 9.6G /usr > > Or is there a better candidate to whack/prune? > > Suggestions are most welcome! > > James >
rm -f /usr/portage/distfiles/* no risk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
