Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi, > this is probably an old discussion, sorry for bring it up again. > > When I joined Gentoo (a few months ago) I got the idea that I could > control very well the space that gentoo would require. That would be > great because of my 4.6G available to it. Then, not so long time ago I > got very surprised with how much less space available I had when I > didn't have (almost) anything installed. Now it's completely full and > I'm the middle of an emerge :( > > Well, tears apart, I would like to know if there's a good way to > control the space usage of portage, since it is the reason for my > problem. > My /usr/portage and /var/tmp/portage/ take 2.2G which is almost half > of the partition. > > What I have installed: > - some (split) ebuilds of kde 3.4.1 > - e16 > - e17 > - firefox > - gimp > - acrobat reader 7 > - xmms, amsn (and maybe a few more small packages) > > What I've found until now: > - clear /usr/portage/distfiles and /var/tmp/portage after an emerge, > or regularly (using tmpreaper) > - there are some users-made scripts (still buggy) that look for old > ebuilds in portage tree and erases them > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-3011-highlight-portage+space+usage.html > <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-3011-highlight-portage+space+usage.html>) > > Any comments/ideas/scripts about this, or everyone has plenty space to > spare... > > Cheers, > Fernando
Hi, Just checking the size of '/usr/portage' and it's quite 3 GB using reiserfs from which 1,4 GB is in 'distfiles' (source code) and 1,2 GB in 'packages' (binary packages in my case) so just portage is around 400 MB here. My '/var/tmp/portage' directory is (~430 MB) together with portage logs which are the most of it (PORT_LOGDIR=). You could erase all of '/var/tmp/portage' and '/usr/portage/distfiles' (you'll have to download the sources again though). Also check if using "keepwork" in your /etc/make.conf file if 'yes' remove it (specially in case not having disk space, same for "buildpkg"). For cleaning 'distfiles' i use "distclean.py" script. Try out "emerge depclean -pv" but watch out before removing the "p" afterwards. HTH. Rumen
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