On 2013-09-29 5:15 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
Those numbers are not likely to change much with time, with one exception:
/usr/src
That can get real big real quick if you don't clean up kernel sources
often. Ideally, you'd make that a suitably sized LV and mount it seperately.
Yeah, I always keep 2 or 3 known good kernels, and clean out the old
stuff, so no worries there.
The other space consumer is /usr/share with it's many documentation
files. But those too tend to be stable once you have everything
installed. 5G free out of 19G is ~75% space in use which is perfectly
acceptable for this case.
Regular monitoring of the state of your machines will tell you if space
usage increases so you can investigate and deal with it timeously.
I assume you long since moved portage and it's storage directories out
of /usr into /var?
Hmmm... No, I never did that myself...
Wow...
moria : Sun Sep 29, 18:19:01 : ~
# du -sh /usr/*
85M /usr/bin
131M /usr/include
0 /usr/lib
11M /usr/lib32
530M /usr/lib64
51M /usr/libexec
15M /usr/local
7.8G /usr/portage
21M /usr/sbin
509M /usr/share
3.9G /usr/src
0 /usr/tmp
7.0M /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
moria : Sun Sep 29, 18:26:30 : ~
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Is this the official gentoo way now? Will a new/fresh virgin install
have /var/portage instead of /usr/portage?
I can eliminate almost 8GB by moving portage and its storage directories...
I don't recall seeing a news item about that...
But... is /usr/portage the default/recommended location? If so, then I
don't think I want to move it - I generally never change defaults unless
there is a very good reason to do so.
But, is there some official gentoo docs online explaining how to do this?
Something more to think about...
Also - is there any kind of maintenance I shoudl be doing on
/usr/portage to clean old cruft out? Or does portage maintain it already.
:)
