[Solved]root partition growing up ?

Jjeje007 · Last edited by Jjeje007 on Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:07 pm; edited 3 times in total

Hi,

It's my first install of gentoo.
I was using OpenSuSE before and so, usually I setup my root partition (/) for ~10G (9.3G exactly)
After some use, it's look like that root partition (/) is growing up
At this time, I have ~7G of 9.3G occuped and i feel this could be "wrong" (it's really big 7G for only kde) so i check the folders in the root partition (/) and found :

/tmp : ~280M
/proc : ~2G

/usr : ~ 4.8G
/var : ~ 1.2G

others folders are "unimportant"

So is there something wrong ??

My packages are kde-meta, openoffice, gimp, amarok and some other stuff

Jjeje007

thorpe · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:27 am Post subject:

What is a Mo? and go? They are not data storage measurements.

You might look at clear out your /usr/portage/distfiles directory.
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Jjeje007 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:41 am Post subject:

Hi,

I edited my post ... sorry for the "storage measurements"
Anyway, how i can clean up my distfiles directory ?

Thx for the reply,

Jjeje007

richfish · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:42 am Post subject: Re: root partition growing up ?

Jjeje007 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:48 am Post subject:

I just check the size with konqueror (right-click on /proc and properties)

Jjeje007

Sorry for my bad english :oops:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject:

For those wondering a gigaoctect is french for gigabyte.

And see what the sizes of /usr/portage/distfiles, /var/tmp/portage are. My guess is cleaning out the two of those will give atleast 1GB back, if not two

Here are the numbers from my system, no gnome or kde, but a nice working system on fvwm. I do have openoffice, gimp and some other large applications, but no games

Jjeje007 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Yes your right my /usr/portage/distfiles is 1.6G and /var/tmp/portage is ok (~300K)

So how i clean up /usr/portage/distfiles ? --> rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles ? (and then mkdir after)

Thx for the reply,

Jjeje007

Note : Sorry for the "gigaoctet" term :wink:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject:

no problems, about the term, just expanded my vocabulary a bit.

As far as cleaning out your system, if you don't plan on re-emerge anything you already have emerge, or don't mind re-downloading it incase a new revsision comes out, then just rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles/*

I have seen a script that cleans out your distfiles of all old versions, but keeps the most recent tar of all the installed apps. If you are that worried about re-downloading the files you could use that.

The only ones that matter to me on my laptops are the ati-drivers and my wireless drivers, everything else I clear out.
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Jjeje007 · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:33 am Post subject:

Hi,

Ok thanks, I don't care about re-downloading (I got an good connection) so i'll rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles/*

See you,

Jjeje007