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| I have a 21 gb / for gentoo and I'm currently using 20 gb. I can't figure out what is taking up so much space. I've deleted all the extra kernels, tmp files, logs. I've run emerge --depclean. I'm running out of ideas. Any suggestions? |
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albright
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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this is obvious, but have you looked in
/usr/portage/distfiles?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| That is one of the first things I did. It's empty. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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You can try this disk usage program to see what is taking so much space easily:
Maybe a mysql database is eating your disk. Probably in your /var dir.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, that was it. It was an old database I no longer use. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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try du --max-depth=1 -h /
and then u gona know where start to look, linux sources eat a lot of space, mysql "binary logging" eat a lot ... etc
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| What is /var/db/package? It looks like a repeat of portage. This is the directory that's taking almost 10 gbs of disk space. |
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Beetle B.
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Cool. I'll give filelight a go.
Just for everyone else, I use ncdu for these things. It quickly tells me how much space each directory is using.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| mystified wrote: | | What is /var/db/package? It looks like a repeat of portage. This is the directory that's taking almost 10 gbs of disk space. |
Although I have no /var/db/package on my systems, I suspect it might be the new location for the binpkg directory, which is /usr/portage/packages on my boxen. This is the binary packages archive.
If I'm right, you should see a boatload of tarballs in /var/db/package/All that probably account for most of your 10GB. My further guess would be that you have FEATURES="buildpkg" enabled in /etc/make.conf and have unknowingly been building binary packages for every package you install, for quite some time.
If this all checks out, you can safely delete everything under /var/db/package. Binary packages are useful for quick reinstallation (without recompiling), for installing Gentoo on multiple machines with similar architectures and hardware, and not much else. If these cases don't apply to you, turn off the buildpkg feature and clean out the tarballs.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:32 am Post subject: |
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I don't have that enabled in /etc/make.conf. How do I turn off the build package feature?
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Well whatever you do don't delete /var/lib/pkg. I had to download a stage3 tarball and copy the contents over. I am now having to compile 571 packages. |
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| mystified wrote: | | Well whatever you do don't delete /var/lib/pkg. I had to download a stage3 tarball and copy the contents over. I am now having to compile 571 packages. |
Do you mean " /var/db/pkg/" ?
It is 216M here.
I don't have "/var/lib/pkg"
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| My mistake. You are correct. |
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Beetle B.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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I assume I can delete everything in /var/tmp/portage?
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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yes just go ahead, that is why they are in tmp in the first place.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: lots of disk usage |
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| I had a similar problem, turned out it was mysql eating up space with transaction replication data in /var/lib/mysql things of the form mysql-bin.00000x two things removed them, in mysql ran the command RESET MASTER; then in /etc/mysql/my.cnf commented out log-bin and server-id |
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