2010/8/17 Hal Martin <hal.mar...@gmail.com>: > A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my > hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it > will provide. > > Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage > I see that /usr/portage and /var/tmp are using approximately 10GB, which is > well over the 7.5GB I have on the SSD.
I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB Maybe you just need to do some cleanup of your outdated sources? Regards Al