On Thu, Aug 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > 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
No need to answer these queries. Everything is explained in [1] above. thanks again, allan
