The only problem with this approach is that I don't have enough space to download http-replicator. I'll try this as soon as I get things somewhat cleaned-up. Thanks for the advice!

-Jason

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Dale wrote:

Jason W Elliot wrote:

Hi,

    While trying to run emerge today I got the message that there was
not enough disk space.  I ran df and noticed that /usr is 100% full.
I am wonderring whether there is an easy way to clean it up.  I'd
rather not resize my partitions, and it's likely that there's a lot of
junk in there that I don't need.  Is it safe to remove the stuff in
/usr/portage/distfiles?

    Thanks!



I can tell you how I cleaned my distfiles out.  I installed
http-replicator and let it clean them out.  It knows what source files
are no longer going to be used, to old and not in portage any more, and
then you can delete the old ones.  It will list them too.

If  you do this, don't forget to put the proxy line in make.conf and
point it back to itself.  Basically it moves everything to cache then
you can delete the rest in distfile.  If you do a emerge, it just puts
them back.  Sounds strange but it worked well for me.  I also use it for
three servers connected here on a LAN.  It was a fringe benefit I guess.

Dale
:-)

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