Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Alex Fansky
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
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 ... :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread Grant
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-27 Thread William Kenworthy
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

[gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Grant
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

2007-04-26 Thread Nelson, David J
-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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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* --

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread fire-eyes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

2007-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
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