Fernando Meira wrote:
Ok, so running through that forum I decided to try out some of the
scripts to clean stale distfiles.
The first one (distcleaner-0.0.2) returned a lot of errors. The second
(distmaint.py) was too weird. Finally, (distclean.sh) seemed to be ok,
and freed 255 MB. I could then end my emerge (eclipse). After the
emerge I end-up with 805Mb free.
As you say Holly, this is far from enough if I want to compile
something big and also maybe for smaller apps. Which means that I have
a problem.
In fact, I have a 38GB disk on my laptop. My mistake was that I
assumed that gentoo was not so space-consuming. Now I'll have to make
some modifications, redo my partitions. What I would like was to clean
once per all my windoz partition (9GB)... but from time to time I need
it.. unless I find a replacement to all the things I need from there.
Anyway, thanks for the replies.
If someone has a nice script to maintain distfiles under control let
me know. ;)
My preference, since I normally mount with noatime, is:
mount /u/p/distfiles -o remount,atime (yes, I keep distfiles on a
separate LVM volume!)
emerge --deep --emptytree --fetchonly world (updates atimes)
mount /u/p/distfiles -o remount,noatime
find /u/p/distfiles -amin +60 -exec rm -v {} \;
The above commands will remove all distfiles not needed anymore, either
due to updates or unmerge packages.
-Richard
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