Re: [gentoo-user] can I remove /var/cache/

2010-12-09 Thread fajfusio 
Dnia 7-12-2010 o godz. 16:45 Mick napisał(a):
 2010/12/7  fajfu...@wp.pl:
  Hi
 
  Can I remove /var/cache/ directory.
  My contens of it is as follows:
  cups  edb  eix  fontconfig  genkernel  hald  ldconfig  man
  revdep-rebuild  samba
 
  thanks for answer
 
 I wouldn't.
 
 Why do you want to remove it?

I would like to get more disk space.
Why you wouldn't remove it ?

thanks for answer

Re: [gentoo-user] can I remove /var/cache/

2010-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon 
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:33 on Thursday 09 December 2010, 
fajfu...@wp.pl did opine thusly:

 Dnia 7-12-2010 o godz. 16:45 Mick napisał(a):
  2010/12/7  fajfu...@wp.pl:
   Hi
   
   Can I remove /var/cache/ directory.
   My contens of it is as follows:
   cups  edb  eix  fontconfig  genkernel  hald  ldconfig  man
   revdep-rebuild  samba
   
   thanks for answer
  
  I wouldn't.
  
  Why do you want to remove it?
 
 I would like to get more disk space.
 Why you wouldn't remove it ?

It's a cache, it will all be put back almost immediately.

Disks are cheap. Just go buy new disks.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] can I remove /var/cache/

2010-12-09 Thread Kfir Lavi 
2010/12/7 fajfu...@wp.pl

 Hi

 Can I remove /var/cache/ directory.
 My contens of it is as follows:
 cups  edb  eix  fontconfig  genkernel  hald  ldconfig  man
 revdep-rebuild  samba

 thanks for answer



 Hi,
Before you decide to remove something do some testing.
start by running
$ du -sh /*
Then see what grabs the most, or what seems not in place.
Then try to run the command again in the directory that seems to be too big.

In my case /var/cache is just 16M so no need to look there.

Another option is to mount some parts of your filesystem as tmpfs.
This will put files on the main memory and not on the hard drive.
Take care that this files will be gone when you unmount or restart.

You can save some more space with
FEATURES=noman noinfo nodoc
placed in /etc/make.conf

Regards,
Kfir

[gentoo-user] can I remove /var/cache/

2010-12-07 Thread fajfusio 
Hi

Can I remove /var/cache/ directory.
My contens of it is as follows:
cups  edb  eix  fontconfig  genkernel  hald  ldconfig  man  
revdep-rebuild  samba

thanks for answer

Re: [gentoo-user] can I remove /var/cache/

2010-12-07 Thread Mick 
2010/12/7  fajfu...@wp.pl:
 Hi

 Can I remove /var/cache/ directory.
 My contens of it is as follows:
 cups  edb  eix  fontconfig  genkernel  hald  ldconfig  man
 revdep-rebuild  samba

 thanks for answer

I wouldn't.

Why do you want to remove it?

-- 
Regards,
Mick