Comments on: How-To: Cleaning up Gentoo to get more free disk space http://fritzthomas.com/overall/491-how-to-cleaning-up-gentoo-to-get-more-free-disk-space/ Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:25:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://fritzthomas.com/overall/491-how-to-cleaning-up-gentoo-to-get-more-free-disk-space/comment-page-1/#comment-364 admin Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:53:26 +0000 http://fritzthomas.com/?p=491#comment-364 Of course! This should be rm -rf /tmp/* Of course! This should be rm -rf /tmp/*

]]> By: Christian http://fritzthomas.com/overall/491-how-to-cleaning-up-gentoo-to-get-more-free-disk-space/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Christian Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:41:14 +0000 http://fritzthomas.com/?p=491#comment-363 rm -rf /tmp* bad idea. at least do rm -rf /tmp/* but if things go worse it will skrew your X Session rm -rf /tmp*

bad idea. at least do rm -rf /tmp/* but if things go worse it will skrew your X Session

]]> By: matt http://fritzthomas.com/overall/491-how-to-cleaning-up-gentoo-to-get-more-free-disk-space/comment-page-1/#comment-354 matt Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:57:36 +0000 http://fritzthomas.com/?p=491#comment-354 thanks for the tip. freeing up the distfiles freed me up 5GB of diskspace. My root is only 20GB which I thought should be plenty but my disk hit 100%. I think its ok to remove the files in /usr/portage/distfile especially a little while after a fresh install or after installing gnome or kde. I'm still trying to free up more space because I think 20GB should be plenty and my gentoo is at 15GB. Ubuntu with a ton of packages installed was only around 12GB so we'll see. thanks for the tip. freeing up the distfiles freed me up 5GB of diskspace. My root is only 20GB which I thought should be plenty but my disk hit 100%. I think its ok to remove the files in /usr/portage/distfile especially a little while after a fresh install or after installing gnome or kde. I’m still trying to free up more space because I think 20GB should be plenty and my gentoo is at 15GB. Ubuntu with a ton of packages installed was only around 12GB so we’ll see.

]]> By: daid http://fritzthomas.com/overall/491-how-to-cleaning-up-gentoo-to-get-more-free-disk-space/comment-page-1/#comment-315 daid Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:39:03 +0000 http://fritzthomas.com/?p=491#comment-315 Generally a good list. I'm not entirely sure the merit of cleaning out the ccache after you just updated though. Sure, it will save on disk space, but the point of ccache is to speed up subsequent rebuilds. If you're just going to clean it out every time after you update, you might as well just not use the feature. Also, while cleaning out distfiles is a good way to save local disk space, it puts a lot more pressure on the gentoo servers. I suggest keeping around the distfiles for anything you have installed, and just run eclean distfiles to remove the old ones. If everyone deleted all their distfiles after every update, the server load would go up probably an order of magnitude (rough guess). Generally a good list.

I’m not entirely sure the merit of cleaning out the ccache after you just updated though. Sure, it will save on disk space, but the point of ccache is to speed up subsequent rebuilds. If you’re just going to clean it out every time after you update, you might as well just not use the feature.

Also, while cleaning out distfiles is a good way to save local disk space, it puts a lot more pressure on the gentoo servers. I suggest keeping around the distfiles for anything you have installed, and just run eclean distfiles to remove the old ones. If everyone deleted all their distfiles after every update, the server load would go up probably an order of magnitude (rough guess).

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