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flazz
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 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: system cleanup |
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i'm wondering if it is safe to clean out /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage/distfiles.
i also noticed that my /var/log/messages is 22M. what is the proper technique for cleaning logs?
are there any other things i might want to look into cleaning out? |
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seank
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, perfectly safe to remove the files in /usr/portage/distfiles and all the junk in /var/tmp/portage, but don't delete the directories themselves. Do like this: | Code: | | # rm -fr /usr/portage/distfiles/* /var/tmp/portage/* |
Might want to look into 'logrotate' for pruning those log files. I haven't done much with that so maybe someone else will comment on that. |
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firetwister
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| emptying /usr/portage/distfiles is safe but if a new revision of a programm is coming out everything will be fetched again, not only the new patches! |
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winston_nolan
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Location: cape town, south africa
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:53 am Post subject: system cleanup |
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/usr/portage/distfiles is my most important dir 
it's all my goodies man. i dont sudgest cleaning that ever! keep it, cause then you can copy it to a drive and youll always have the latest apps that you have say on your work drive.
look into logrotate for the log files. works like a bomb
later |
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