size of /usr

oscrmyer · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Seattle

I am just wondering what the size and % full of everyone's /usr partion.

Mine running at 100% right, and its I really have no idea why. Its a 4.3gb filesystem. I dont really have anything large installed on that partion, besides KDE, and I dont really wanna go rooting around deleting items there either. Could it be the portage tree that is causing this?
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malloc · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 762

run a df -h /usr to see wich dirs are taking up space.
You will have a lot of junk in your distfiles dir also depending on your FEATURES flags (thinking buildpkg) will also occupy more space since it will save all the binary packages you build for every emerge

oscrmyer · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Seattle

yeah that was it, I just created a link from a empty partion for the distfile dir. Thanks, got to love the message forum best user support around!
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iamlarryboy · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:40 am Post subject:

Kde 3.2 has a really cool utility called fsview. if you have 3.2 you might use it to find out what is taking up space.

/usr will be the bulk of your installation btw. /usr/portage can be HUGE depending on a number of variables (packages, distfiles etc.)

I would give /usr more than 4GB I'd say at least 6GB

malloc · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 762

Also if you're planning to partition your hd really agressivelly don't forget to give /tmp a few Gb's because that's where all the compiling stuff will be happening and some builds take an insane amount of space during compilation (thinking Oofice wich take approximatelly 4Gb's)