/ 90% full

[leonglass]

I have noticed that my system has slowed down a bit recently and I think it may be to do with my / being 90% full. My disks are laid out as follows

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2
/dev/hda2 / ext3
/dev/hda4 none swap
/dev/hda3 /home ext3
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/music ext3
/dev/hdb3 /var ext3

My large files such as music is kept in /mnt/music and home is also seperate. So my question is, is it system files such as code trees for portage that is taking up all this space and is there a way to clean it all out.
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[Veldrin]

distfiles in the portage tree. have a look at /usr/portage/distfiles.

the easiest way to do a clean up is removed nay files therein, but this might cause some redownloading. I use eclean-dist -df, which removes all deprecated files, which are no longer used, while it keeps those with a fetch restriction.

you say, that is is 90% full. 90% of how much?

hope it helps
V.

[leonglass]

13.4GB of 15.5GB so quite a lrge amount of files. I have just checked and the /usr/portage directory is 5.4GB. Will try your suggestion and see how it goes.

[edit] running eclean-dist -df removed 3.3GB and put the percentage back to 67%. Is there anything else I can do.
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[schachti]

Have a look at /usr/src/ - there might be old kernel sources which you no longer need.

If you use gentoo-sources, run

[i92guboj]

[pdr]

Just to flesh out the last two posts:

If you emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.nn-rnn, it will NOT remove the /usr/src/linux-2.6.nn directory (because making the kernel left some files in there - eg the .o files, the config, etc) and it will NOT remove the /lib/modules/2.6.nn-gentoo-rnn directories (because you did not install that - you created it when you ran make modules_install). So besides unmerging the kernel(s), manually remove the directories too. I also delete them from /boot/ also - I keep 3 latest kernels installed only.

[leonglass]

Thanks for advice everyone I currently have it down to 67% and I have seen that I have about 6 kernels installed so I will give that next bit a go.
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[bunder]

if you have any unpartitioned space, you might want to consider moving /usr and /var off onto their own filesystems.

cheers
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[leonglass]

[i92guboj]

To prevent fragmentation issues, I always advise to make separate partitions for /var, /tmp, /var/tmp, /usr/src, $PORTDIR and home.