2gb hd space gone after emerge world

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

im not sure because im new to gentoo but i did a emere world and now 2gb of hd space are missing somewhere..this seems excessive to me...like i said im new to gentoo and hoping someone would tell me if this is normal or excessive to them...i had 21.7gb free before emerge world and 19.7 afterward...all help is greatly appreciated...

richfish · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject:

Try: du -s /usr/portage/distfiles

"eclean distfiles" should help reclaim things by removing distfiles for packages that are no longer in portage. "eclean --destructive distfiles" will remove distfiles for things you don't have installed, like old versions of packages.

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

ran eclean distfiles and only got 257kb back...thanks for that though i did not know about eclean distfiles...anymore ideas where my space went?

richfish · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Well /var/tmp/portage would be my other guess...maybe some failed or old sources lying about.

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

/var/tmp/portage has 47mb in it...is it ok to delete the things in it or is it gonna harm my system?

richfish · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:09 am Post subject:

It should be safe to remove everything that is /var/tmp/portage/.

No idea what else to check....guess you could start a hunt with "du".

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

emptying out portage temp will only get me 47mb after hunting with du ive come up with absolutely nothing...im still missing 2gb of hd space and ive never had this problem with any other distro after updating...even after dist upgrading the most ive lost is maybe 300mb ...can someone please help me get my 2gb back...all help is greatly appreciated...

loki_val · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:11 am Post subject:

Are you running ccache? If so, its files are located in /var/tmp/ccache. Do this:

i92guboj · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:38 am Post subject:

Check /usr/src, each installed kernel can take around 300mb, moreless, depending on the filesystem type and the formatting and mount options.

EDIT, it would also help what kind of "emerge world" did you do. Do you know if a lot of new packages have been pushed into or was it mostly updates?

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

there is no folder for var/tmp/ccache and the type of emerge world i did was emerge -uDvN world ....also there are two kernels in /usr/src a 2.6.17.6 and a 2.6.17.13 for some reason i seem to be using the lower of the kernels the 2.6.17.6 here is the output from uname -a

localhost ~ # uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.17.6 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 11:31:40 EST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

is there anything else that might help u help me?? and thanks for all the help so far

Headrush · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

You said you did eclean distfiles, but you still have the other files in /usr/portage/distfiles?
(eclean distfiles only removes packages no longer in portage and eclean --destructive distfiles removes packages no longer installed.)

What is the output of

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

localhost ~ # du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles/
793M /usr/portage/distfiles/

broken_chaos · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject:

Can you post the output of emerge --info too, please?

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

heres the output from eclean -dp distfiles

localhost ~ # eclean -dp distfiles
* Building file list for distfiles cleaning...
* Here are distfiles that would be deleted:
[ 33.9 M ] firefox-1.5.0.8-source.tar.bz2
[ 52.8 K ] glproto-1.4.7.tar.bz2
[ 187.1 K ] libdvbpsi-0.1.3.tar.bz2
[ 36.2 K ] mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8-patches-0.1.tar.bz2
[ 37.3 K ] util-macros-1.0.2.tar.bz2
* Total space that would be freed in distfiles directory: 34.2 M

and the output from emerge --info

localhost ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17.6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17.6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:00:02 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache: [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_radeon vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

if u need anything else let me know...all help is really appreciated..

Headrush · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:30 am Post subject:

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

eclean -d distfiles will only clean 40mb heres the output

ocalhost ~ # eclean -dp distfiles
* Building file list for distfiles cleaning...
* Here are distfiles that would be deleted:
[ 33.9 M ] firefox-1.5.0.8-source.tar.bz2
[ 52.8 K ] glproto-1.4.7.tar.bz2
[ 187.1 K ] libdvbpsi-0.1.3.tar.bz2
[ 36.2 K ] mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8-patches-0.1.tar.bz2
[ 37.3 K ] util-macros-1.0.2.tar.bz2
* Total space that would be freed in distfiles directory: 34.2 M

and there is only like 76mb in the other 2 folders u named...im at a loss as to where my space went...and this makes me wary of emerging big packages like gnome 2.16 because im afraid it will take up even more space...

Headrush · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:21 am Post subject:

swp6499, eclean is only removing the packages not in the portage anymore or ebuilds you once installed but are since removed. You still have all the sources for ebuilds you currently have emerged.

Use the du command I showed to see the location where the space is being used. Unless you show us that we are just guessing.

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

here is the result of du -hs /*

localhost ~ # du -hs /*
8.2M /bin
5.2M /boot
192K /dev
58M /etc
60M /home
34M /lib
16K /lost+found
4.0K /media
132K /metadata.tar.bz2
12K /mnt
219M /opt
28M /portage-2006.1.tar.bz2
du: cannot access `/proc/21425/task/21425/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/21425/fd/4': No such file or directory
770M /proc
468K /root
4.9M /sbin
0 /sys
12M /tmp
4.0G /usr
250M /var

all help is really appreciated..

Headrush · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:20 am Post subject:

So the most is in /usr, so just keep expanding your search.

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

heres the output from du -hs /usr/*

localhost ~ # du -hs /usr/*
0 /usr/X11R6
117M /usr/bin
64K /usr/doc
2.7M /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu
74M /usr/include
69M /usr/kde
816M /usr/lib
19M /usr/libexec
36K /usr/local
1.4G /usr/portage
27M /usr/qt
4.1M /usr/sbin
843M /usr/share
721M /usr/src
0 /usr/tmp

but i am unsure of what i can and cannot delete from the /usr directory...thanks for all your help so far

Christof_Deluca · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:50 am Post subject:

How many things did you emerge? Did you emerge X or Gnome or KDE? If you added alot of packages, your /usr/portage directory would grow pretty big.
_________________
Help me solve my VLC problem, please!

Headrush · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:51 am Post subject:

Looks like you might have multiple kernel sources in /usr/src/linux.

You could unmerge the one you aren't using.

swp6499 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

heres the output from the kernels i have

localhost ~ # ls -l /usr/src/
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 4 11:24 linux -> linux-2.6.17.6
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Dec 9 14:47 linux-2.6.17.13
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Dec 4 11:47 linux-2.6.17.6
localhost ~ #
localhost ~ # uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.17.6 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 11:31:40 EST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

which one should i unemerge??

and i do have X and gnome emerged...but should it really take up that much space?? i personally wouldnt consider the packages i have installed a lot...but i am new to gentoo....all help is greatly appreciated..

Christof_Deluca · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:17 am Post subject:

The one that isn't symbolically linked to linux/; In your case, .13.

But that's the newer one. So you should choose if you want to keep the newer one and compile a new kernel from it or unmerge it.
_________________
Help me solve my VLC problem, please!

i92guboj · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: