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Nuteater
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 Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:41 pm Post subject: Check which packages occupy most space |
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In the interest of making your pet Gentoo a bit slimmer, besides running all those cleaner scripts you might occasionally want to check which packages are the worst space-hoggers in your system. I, for example, found two rather large font packages I didn't even use occupying nearly 100M of precious space -- unforgivable  .
First you'll need a tool to measure the occupied space of a package. qsize is a nice small & fast utility for that purpose, so get it with
| Code: | | emerge portage-utils |
if you haven't done so already. Portage-utils is currently masked with the ~arch keyword, so you might have to unmask it first with | Code: | | echo "app-portage/portage-utils ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords |
Remember to change your arch if you are not a x86 user!
After getting qsize, just fire up (as root)
| Code: | | qsize -ma | awk '{print $6" "$7" "$1}' | sort -nr | head -n 30 |
to get a nice listing of the top30 space-hoggers installed on your system along with how many megabytes they are occupying (this might take a minute or three). Adjust the number parameter given to 'head' if you want a different top-listing, or remove the head bit entirely if you want to see all packages listed by size. If you see packages occupying more space they are worth, just emerge -C them - just make sure you don't remove python or other vital packages! 
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Sadako
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:39 am Post subject: |
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Very nice, thanks.
(/me has to learn how to use awk, sed, etc  )
Top ten space hogs;
| Code: | 191 MB sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6:
168 MB app-office/openoffice-ximian-1.3.7:
141 MB app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r5:
116 MB x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.14:
66 MB dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.06:
60 MB x11-themes/gentoo-artwork-0.4:
60 MB sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4:
54 MB dev-libs/boost-1.31.0:
41 MB sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5:
39 MB www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.5: |
I don't really use anything from gentoo-artwork, and most of the space is used up my different sizes of the same wallpapers.
Don't really need boost, either.
Can I do without tetex, though?
Others of note;
| Code: | 32 MB dev-lang/ocaml-3.08.1:
30 MB media-libs/win32codecs-20050216:
30 MB media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.7:
28 MB media-gfx/gimp-2.2.6-r1:
20 MB sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5-r1:
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oc what?
Gimp-print is actually larger than the gimp itself? I've never even used the damn thing.
And gcc 3.4 is three times larger than 3.3. 
Anyway, thanks again.
Very informative.
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satanskin
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | And gcc 3.4 is three times larger than 3.3. |
make that 5 times!
| Quote: | 101 MB sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4:
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Sadako
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| satanskin wrote: | | Quote: | | And gcc 3.4 is three times larger than 3.3. |
make that 5 times!
| Quote: | 101 MB sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4:
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Lemme guess; -O3?
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