On Thu, Aug 18 2011, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2011/8/18 Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu>: >> /usr/lib64/debug seems to have in it a duplicate (at least as far as >> directory names are concerned) of much of /usr/lib64. >> >> For example >> >> ajglap lib64 # /bin/pwd >> /usr/lib64/debug/usr/lib64 >> ajglap lib64 # du -s * | sort -n | tail -10 >> 34020 mesa >> 53148 gstreamer-0.10 >> 155992 icedtea6 >> 161360 llvm >> 208932 qt4 >> 304016 xulrunner-devel-2.0 >> 308880 xulrunner-2.0 >> 618408 firefox >> 669000 libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.7.2.debug >> 1087848 libreoffice >> ajglap lib64 # >> >> Is this correct? My system is ~amd64 > > > Do you have the splitdebug [1] FEATURE enabled? > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
Bingo. If I drop this feature (I turned it on for tracking a bug) will the /usr/lib64/debug tree go away or must I delete it manually. Also are there any other large subtrees I need to purge? thanks for the help. allan
