Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > That won't pick up space wasted by files occupying space in > > directories that are used as mount points. > > How often does that happen? Not very often, but it happens in a significant proportion of the times the root partition fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 19:47:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 4 May 2009 18:31:06 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > #mount -o bind / /mnt/root > > > #du -max-dep=1 > > > > Or just forget about the useless bind-mount and add "-x" to the "du" > > command. > > That won't pick up space wasted by f

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:18 -0400, John covici wrote: > What I would really like to do is get rid of everything except the > most recent compile of each program in /var/log/portage -- anyone have > a script to do that? Why not delete everything over a week or two old? Once the package is installe

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 18:31:06 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > #mount -o bind / /mnt/root > > #du -max-dep=1 > > Or just forget about the useless bind-mount and add "-x" to the "du" > command. That won't pick up space wasted by files occupying space in directories that are used as mount points.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 05/04/2009 Mick(michaelkintz...@gmail.com) wrote > On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote: > > on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote > > > > > You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time > > > > > > Or in /var/log. Logrotate

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 16:02:39 schrieb Platoali: > Try to remount route on another directory and check which directory is > using so much. I had a similar problem asked this a couple of month before > on this mailing list. They gave this commands: > > #mount -o bind / /mnt/root > #du -max-dep=1

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote: > on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote > > > 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 com

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: > I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running > out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a > rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo > would not waste my resources that muc

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote > > 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 g

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Marco
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > +++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: [...] > Just to be sure you checked - Gentoo keeps temporary files in > /var/tmp/portage/ (build temp location, sometimes things get left here) and > /usr/portage/distfiles/ (

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Marco
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Marco wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: > I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running > out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a > rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo > would not waste my re

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Philipp Riegger
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 fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 May 2009 16:57:06 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Marco wrote: > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: > > > > [..] > > > >> I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/4/09, Marco wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Andrew MacKenzie > wrote: >> +++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: > [...] >> Just to be sure you checked - Gentoo keeps temporary files in >> /var/tmp/portage/ (build temp location, sometimes things get left her

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Platoali
On Do shanbe 14 Ordibehesht 1388 18:22:19 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: > > I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running > > out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a > > rather small system with fluxbox (no K

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Masood Ahmed
Marco writes: > Hi all, > > I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running > out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a > rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo > would not waste my resources that much. Now I am thinking

[gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Marco
Hi all, I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my resources that much. Now I am thinking about how to resize my ext3