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leonglass Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject: / 90% full |
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I have noticed that my system has slowed down a bit recently and I think it may be to do with my / being 90% full. My disks are laid out as follows
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2
/dev/hda2 / ext3
/dev/hda4 none swap
/dev/hda3 /home ext3
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/music ext3
/dev/hdb3 /var ext3
My large files such as music is kept in /mnt/music and home is also seperate. So my question is, is it system files such as code trees for portage that is taking up all this space and is there a way to clean it all out. _________________ Glasys, Glass Arcade, Tauntonions
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Veldrin Veteran
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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distfiles in the portage tree. have a look at /usr/portage/distfiles.
the easiest way to do a clean up is removed nay files therein, but this might cause some redownloading. I use eclean-dist -df, which removes all deprecated files, which are no longer used, while it keeps those with a fetch restriction.
you say, that is is 90% full. 90% of how much?
hope it helps
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leonglass Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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13.4GB of 15.5GB so quite a lrge amount of files. I have just checked and the /usr/portage directory is 5.4GB. Will try your suggestion and see how it goes.
[edit] running eclean-dist -df removed 3.3GB and put the percentage back to 67%. Is there anything else I can do. _________________ Glasys, Glass Arcade, Tauntonions
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Have a look at /usr/src/ - there might be old kernel sources which you no longer need.
If you use gentoo-sources, run
Code: | equery l gentoo-sources |
to get a list of all installed versions - remove all old versions that you do not need. Also clean /tmp/ and /var/tmp/. _________________ Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience.
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i92guboj Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 10315 Location: Córdoba (Spain)
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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schachti wrote: | Have a look at /usr/src/ - there might be old kernel sources which you no longer need.
If you use gentoo-sources, run
Code: | equery l gentoo-sources |
to get a list of all installed versions - remove all old versions that you do not need. Also clean /tmp/ and /var/tmp/. |
And while you are at it, you can also look into /lib/modules/ and remove the trees for the kernels that you will not use anymore. |
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pdr l33t
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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Just to flesh out the last two posts:
If you emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.nn-rnn, it will NOT remove the /usr/src/linux-2.6.nn directory (because making the kernel left some files in there - eg the .o files, the config, etc) and it will NOT remove the /lib/modules/2.6.nn-gentoo-rnn directories (because you did not install that - you created it when you ran make modules_install). So besides unmerging the kernel(s), manually remove the directories too. I also delete them from /boot/ also - I keep 3 latest kernels installed only. |
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leonglass Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for advice everyone I currently have it down to 67% and I have seen that I have about 6 kernels installed so I will give that next bit a go. _________________ Glasys, Glass Arcade, Tauntonions
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bunder Bodhisattva
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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if you have any unpartitioned space, you might want to consider moving /usr and /var off onto their own filesystems.
cheers _________________
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leonglass Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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bunder wrote: | if you have any unpartitioned space, you might want to consider moving /usr and /var off onto their own filesystems.
cheers | Yes I was thinking of doing that as I do have half of one of my drives as unpartitioned space so I could do that quite easily. _________________ Glasys, Glass Arcade, Tauntonions
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i92guboj Bodhisattva
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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To prevent fragmentation issues, I always advise to make separate partitions for /var, /tmp, /var/tmp, /usr/src, $PORTDIR and home. |
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