/usr full

carpman · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:34 pm Post subject: /usr full

Hello, ok my /usr partition is full, all 6.6gb of it.

I have /usr/portage and /usr/src on own partitions, questions is how can free up some space till i get it sorted with hard drive/partition redo?

Is there some cruft that can be deleted from /usr ?

cheers
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richard.scott · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:44 pm Post subject:

you could install localepurge and run it?

Apheus · Guru Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 422

How old is this system? Remnants from perl-5.8.8 or python-2.4 come to mind...

These would be in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 and similar for python. But be careful: Check these versions are not installed any more, and back up the files first. It will not free much space anyway, except if something went wrong when the old interpreter versions where uninstalled.

carpman · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 5:02 pm Post subject:

Thanks for replies.

Localepurge got me some space back, nothing to gain from perl, moved from python 2.6 to 2.7 so could remove 2.6 which got some more.
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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

If you are really desperate for space you can clean the following out without many negative impacts to your system... but I would recommend a full `emerge -e world` to return the files after you migrate to the new disk/partition. You might also want to move these to a USB stick so you don't lose them.

Please note that removal of these may impact your system in unexpected ways...

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21707

If you have free space somewhere, just not on /usr, you could try to find the biggest hogs on /usr, move those to the new volume, and bind mount the new directory back into place. This will keep the view mostly consistent, so programs should continue to work.

carpman · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 8:45 am Post subject:

Thanks for replies, recovered nearly 700mb of space which will keep me going till get drives sorted.
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Gigabyte GA X48-DQ6 Core2duo E8400
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SATA Areca 1210 Raid
BFG OC2 8800 GTS 640mb
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Notebook
Samsung Q45 7100 4gb

geeksheik · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 10:14 pm Post subject:

Have you tried eclean already? It's part of the anti-cruft arsenal (gentoolkit actually).

On second thought, I wonder if eclean-pkg will do anything more than your emerge --depclean...

The other part of eclean, eclean-dist, probably doesn't do anything outside of /usr/portage

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21707