[gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Marco
Hi all, I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my resources that much. Now I am thinking about how to resize my

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Platoali
On Do shanbe 14 Ordibehesht 1388 18:22:19 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: [..] I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. Good tip!

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Marco
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: [..] I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. Good tip! cd /usr/src/linux and make clean gave me back 2 GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Masood Ahmed
Marco listwo...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my resources that much. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 May 2009 16:57:06 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: [..] I'd look to see what is filling up the root

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Marco
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Andrew MacKenzie amack...@edespot.com wrote: +++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: [...] Just to be sure you checked - Gentoo keeps temporary files in /var/tmp/portage/ (build temp location, sometimes things get left here) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. Good tip! cd /usr/src/linux and make clean gave me back 2 GB. Also unmerge old unneeded kernels and remove leftovers from old kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'd look to see what is filling up the root partition, 10GB should be more than enough. Good tip! cd /usr/src/linux and make clean gave me back 2 GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:56:05 +, Marco wrote: I am new to gentoo and so far I really like it. But now, I am running out of disk space on my root partition (10 GB), although I have a rather small system with fluxbox (no KDE, GNOME,...). Thought gentoo would not waste my resources that much.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/4/09, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Andrew MacKenzie amack...@edespot.com wrote: +++ Marco [gentoo-user] [Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:56:05PM +]: [...] Just to be sure you checked - Gentoo keeps temporary files in /var/tmp/portage/ (build temp

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote: on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps there and /var/log/portage can be cleaned up by a script that compresses

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 16:02:39 schrieb Platoali: Try to remount route on another directory and check which directory is using so much. I had a similar problem asked this a couple of month before on this mailing list. They gave this commands: #mount -o bind / /mnt/root #du -max-dep=1 Or

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 05/04/2009 Mick(michaelkintz...@gmail.com) wrote On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote: on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps there

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 18:31:06 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: #mount -o bind / /mnt/root #du -max-dep=1 Or just forget about the useless bind-mount and add -x to the du command. That won't pick up space wasted by files occupying space in directories that are used as mount points. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:18 -0400, John covici wrote: What I would really like to do is get rid of everything except the most recent compile of each program in /var/log/portage -- anyone have a script to do that? Why not delete everything over a week or two old? Once the package is installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 19:47:45 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 4 May 2009 18:31:06 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: #mount -o bind / /mnt/root #du -max-dep=1 Or just forget about the useless bind-mount and add -x to the du command. That won't pick up space wasted by files occupying

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: That won't pick up space wasted by files occupying space in directories that are used as mount points. How often does that happen? Not very often, but it happens in a significant proportion of the times the root partition fills