Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
On 4/26/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I don't know if this is *obvious* or not, but you might check your log directory, /var/log. I found my disk full one day because of a bunch of brute force SSH attempts! ( I was getting pretty close without them, but they pushed it to the brink!) Troy -- Beware of spyware. If you can, use the Firefox browser. - USA Today Download now at http://getfirefox.com Registered Linux User #354814 ( http://counter.li.org/) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
В сообщении от Thursday 26 April 2007 17:59:19 Grant написал(а): I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant eclean-dist can help you. -- Alex V. Fansky Minsk, BSU signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
On Freitag, 27. April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other good version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll back ... :) emm, no. Not dangerous at all. After you installed your kernel and the 3rd party modules, you can safely remove the source-dir. There is nothing in it that is needed anymore. And you don't keep old 'backup sources'. Backup kernels in /boot are good enough... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:12:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other good version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll back ... :) emm, no. Not dangerous at all. After you installed your kernel and the 3rd party modules, you can safely remove the source-dir. There is nothing in it that is needed anymore. Except possibly .config, if you need to update third party modules against the current kernel, but you'll already have a copy of that in /boot if you installed the kernel with make install. -- Neil Bothwick A phaser is the universal communicator. þ Worf signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
On Freitag, 27. April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:12:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other good version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll back ... :) emm, no. Not dangerous at all. After you installed your kernel and the 3rd party modules, you can safely remove the source-dir. There is nothing in it that is needed anymore. Except possibly .config, if you need to update third party modules against the current kernel, but you'll already have a copy of that in /boot if you installed the kernel with make install. ls -lh /boot insgesamt 6,9M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 22. Jan 2006 backup_mbr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root1 20. Apr 2006 boot - . lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 23. Apr 22:39 config - config-2.6.20.7-cfs-v5cfsv5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37K 16. Apr 20:54 config-2.6.20.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37K 23. Apr 03:17 config-2.6.20.7-cfs-v4cfs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37K 23. Apr 22:39 config-2.6.20.7-cfs-v5cfsv5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 23. Apr 03:17 config.old - config-2.6.20.7-cfs-v4cfs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1,0K 13. Sep 2006 grub drwx-- 2 root root 12K 24. Mär 2003 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1,0K 3. Jan 2005 memtest86 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1,0K 1. Feb 21:01 memtest86plus -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130K 22. Jan 2006 message lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 23. Apr 22:39 System.map - System.map-2.6.20.7-cfs-v5cfsv5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 844K 16. Apr 20:54 System.map-2.6.20.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 844K 23. Apr 03:17 System.map-2.6.20.7-cfs-v4cfs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 831K 23. Apr 22:39 System.map-2.6.20.7-cfs-v5cfsv5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 23. Apr 03:17 System.map.old - System.map-2.6.20.7-cfs-v4cfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 23. Apr 22:39 vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.6.20.7-cfs-v5cfsv5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4M 16. Apr 20:54 vmlinuz-2.6.20.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4M 23. Apr 03:17 vmlinuz-2.6.20.7-cfs-v4cfs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,4M 23. Apr 22:39 vmlinuz-2.6.20.7-cfs-v5cfsv5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 23. Apr 03:17 vmlinuz.old - vmlinuz-2.6.20.7-cfs-v4cfs I love make install ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant localepurge Total disk space freed by localepurge: 66836K Maybe just the edge I needed. Hope I didn't hose the system. Thanks everyone! - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
depends: I have been caught with a non-bootable system a few times and its much easier to start from an existing config and go from there (After numerous disasters, I wont use genkernel - even if its supposedly ok these days) A (very) few in-tree stuff still seems to want a kernel (vmware-modules?) - not sure what but these days I always keep the last two around as Ive been caught in the past. I also do an occasional ext package - sometimes they want kernel source code. So yes, on a basic, user system you dont need it. But do something out of the ordinary and its quite handy to keep the source code around... YMMV BillK On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:12 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Freitag, 27. April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote: rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other good version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll back ... :) emm, no. Not dangerous at all. After you installed your kernel and the 3rd party modules, you can safely remove the source-dir. There is nothing in it that is needed anymore. And you don't keep old 'backup sources'. Backup kernels in /boot are good enough... -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
-Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 April 2007 15:59 To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Have a rummage in /usr/portage/distfiles and chuck any that you can. Also remove old kernel source packages that you dont need? Check in /usr/src/. -- djn I do not represent anyone else in emails I send to this list. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
On 26 April 2007, Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? Delete all your music. ;-) Seriously, get another one. Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant localepurge rm -rf /var/tmp/ using reiserfs stop using -O3 rm -rf /usr/src/linux* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here: 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) 2) rm -r /usr/portage/distfiles/* 3) Keep your kernel sources compressed until you need them. This saves about 190MB or something: cd /usr/src/ ; tar cj linux-`uname -r` -f linux-`uname -r`-COMPRESSED.tar.bz2 rm -r linux-`uname -r` obviously you'll have to untar and re-delete that tree if you actually need it. Here's a new one. Once you have more space, IF you have kde, filelight is a nice way to see space usage and track it down quickly and see it in a great visual format. Be sure to go into its settings, though, and tell it to cross filesystem boundaries, and also show small files. I'll also agree that reiserfs (3) is nice in that by default it packs tails, i.e. compresses the ends of blocks. Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
Hello fire-eyes, 1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important) No it's not - if you delete the portage directory, portage will simply recreate it when it needs it. -- Neil Bothwick Fer sail cheep, Windows spel chekcer, wurks grate signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage
Watch this one! I ended up with a seriously broken system after running localepurge - make sure you have your locale sorted out first! But it can save quite a lot of space - pity the system was dead in the water ... reiserfs is more space efficient than other filesystems like ext2/3 (depending on a lot of things ... YMMV) -O3 - saves peanuts overall rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other good version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll back ... :) rm -rfv /usr/portage/distfiles - after thinking about if you need to keep these versions, consider if redownloading them wont be a problem (or write them out to DVD/CD etc. There are also a couple of distfile cleaner programs - see the forums. If you have another machine, look into http-replicator - highly recommended. rm -rfv /var/tmp/portage - this can all go - often cruft like crashed OO builds end up here - can be huge. run `du /|sort -rn|less` and see where your biggest files/directories are and see if they can go. In real tight situations, NFS can help by putting /usr/portage/distfiles, /var/tmp/portage, etc on other machines with more diskspace. I have found this to be very flakey at times depending on kernel versions, system loads, etc. Huge builds like OO rarely finished without a crash or two in the build process :) Use the -doc useflag and rebuild - this can save over a GB on a large systems there have been a number of threads over the years on saving space - search the forums. BillK BillK On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:38 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Grant wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant localepurge rm -rf /var/tmp/ using reiserfs stop using -O3 rm -rf /usr/src/linux* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
