usr partition too full

JHuizingh · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 100

My 4.4 GB /usr partition is almost full, and I'm not really sure what to remove. I've get rid of everything in the /usr/portage/distfiles directory fairly regularly, and it is empty right now. Looking at the disk utilization of the /usr directory, nothing major pops out at me:

gt2000lts · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 13

Seems your src directory is very big. Perhaps you have old kernel sources laying around you can get rid of. One kernel takes less than 200mb on my machine. That will free up some space.

The other hog seems to be the share directory, but I am not sure what you could trim out of there.

madchaz · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject:

you might also want to see what takes so much space in portage. I don't think the tree should take that much space
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

There is also a thread in the FAQ Forum that discusses what can be removed.

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wishkah · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 441 Location: de

Something I do with old kernel sources I want to keep: "make clean" in them. I never checked how much space it actually frees, but I guess it's not just a few bytes :-)

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JHuizingh · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 100

Thanks for the tips, I was able to free up half a Gig from the kernel sources.

DarrenM · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:12 am Post subject:

You can also move stuff to another partition and put a symbolic link in it's place.

mv /usr/kde /big_partition/
ln -sf /big_partition/kde /usr/kde