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thegazer
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Joined: 15 Jun 2002
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Location: Melbourne
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 Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 8:15 am Post subject: removing unnecessary files.. |
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my root partition are filling up..
how do I remove files from emerging programs?
besides the downloaded source files... I might need that later.. |
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ElCondor
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Location: Vienna, Austria, Europe
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| Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2002 8:42 am Post subject: |
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there is no need to keep files like /usr/portage/distfiles of probably /usr/portage/packages/All on the rooot partition. if you have eg /home on another partition, mv the directories there and link them: | Code: | cd /usr/portage/
mv distfiles /home
ln -s /home/distfiles . |
Same can be made for any other data, that is not needed for the system to boot or to be maintained, eg /opt (which normally becomes rather large, currently 600MB here)
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ZagiFlyer
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Location: San Jose, CA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Once you've emerged a package, you can delete it from /usr/portage/distfiles if you don't plan on re-emerging it anytime soon (or don't mind downloading it again).
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delta407
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| Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| rm -r /var/tmp/portage/, but make sure nothing is compiling first. |
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