On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be > > >> more than enough. > > > > > > Good tip! cd /usr/src/linux and make clean gave me back 2 GB. > > > > Also unmerge old unneeded kernels and remove leftovers from old > > kernels found in /usr/src and /lib/modules (or /lib64/modules) > > You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time
Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps there and /var/log/portage can be cleaned up by a script that compresses everything older than 1 day (the test helps not to "disturb" a running portage or get ugly split logs). Philipp