installing vanilla kernel failed occupied full disk space.

[rupeshforu3]

Hi I am Rupesh from India and I brought a new system with AMD Ryzen zen3 5500GT and Asus prime 450 motherboard. I have installed gentoo Linux successfully. At present there's no disk space.

Yesterday I updated my system successfully as specified in the gentoo handbook. After that I searched for vanilla package through emerge and found following packages.

vanilla kernel 6.12.5
Vanilla sources 6.12.3

Previously I installed vanilla sources 6.12.3 and created kernel image by the following command

genkernel all.

Yesterday I issued the following command after updating my system.

emerge sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel.

I think that it has tried to compile the source code and after one hour I got lots of errors and so I have restarted my system and entered into cinnamon desktop but this time I received error as

Disk space is too low less than 400 mb do you want to examine.

I neglected and restarted my system again and issued the following command

df -h

Unfortunately I seen that free space of root file system is 500 mb.

At the beginning of Gentoo Linux installation I have allocated 55 gb to gentoo Linux.

Yesterday when the update process completed the free space was 22 GB but now it is 500 mb.

I have checked the space occupied by /var /tmp but those directories occupied only upto 2 gb.

I even tried to uninstall vanilla kernel as follows

emerge --deselect sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel

emerge --depclean

But there's no use.

I have even cleaned the distfiles present in /var and no use.

I can't understand where these build files are present in my system.

Also I want to ask one question which is not related to the current topic ie., is there any need of llvm and clang.

If you say there's no need of llvm and clang I will uninstall them.

llvm, clang and webkitgtk are taking many hours to compile and install.

kindly try to suggest how to clean the working directory of the portage and free SSD drive disk space of upto 22 GB.
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Regards,
Rupesh.

[NeddySeagoon]

rupeshforu3,

Welcome to Gentoo.

There are several things that grow without limit.
1. The portage build space in /var/tmp/portage will fill with broken builds
2. Your distfiles, where all your source frles are stored

As long as emerge is not running, the portage build space can pe removed. All of it.
eclean -d distfiles will remove distfiles that are no longer require
eclean -d packages will dothe same for saved binary packages.

Are you really out of space or i-nodes?
Each file needs at least one i-node.
The kernel and the ::gentoo repo have a large number of small files.

What does df -h show?
That's your free space
What about df -ih
That's your i-node use.
Without a free i-node, no more files can be added, so free space cannout be used.
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NeddySeagoon

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[rupeshforu3]

I am providing the output of commands below

[Banana]

[rupeshforu3]

Thanks the issue has been resolved by using the tool ncdu.

The directory which occupied all the space is

/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel

It occupied 24 gb.

As previously said vanilla kernel failed to install because it need more space upto 60 gb I think so.

I can't understand why such a package was created.
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Regards,
Rupesh.

[Hu]

[Nowa]

As a side note, you can significantly reduce the disk space requirements of the distribution kernels by disabling the "debug" USE flag.
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