Sorav Bansal wrote: > Dear gentoo-users, > > I have a disk space problem with my gentoo installation. > > The /usr directory on my gentoo box is taking up 6.8 gigs of disk > space, 2.8 gigs of which is in /usr/portage. This does not seem right. > Is it possible to reduce this disk usage? > > Regards > Sorav Yes. You could do: rm -r /usr/portage ; emerge --sync
My guess is that you have /usr/portage/distfiles full with package sources that you have installed. You can safely delete that directory. It will be recreated next time you install something. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
