On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Nick Jones wrote: > > I have gentoo installed in a 6G partition. After upgrading kde to 3.1 I > > ran into problems apparently related to lack of disk space: an open emacs > > file could not be saved, cannot login from gdm, ... > > df -h gives 5.7G used and 0 available. The weird thing is that I booted > > from a redhat partition and mounted the gentoo partition; now df -h > > /mnt/gentoo gives the > > same output but konqueror says that the size of /mnt/gentoo is 3.5G (which > > is more like what I would expect). > > > In case some good soul can make sense of it, these are my questions: > > 1) Is the discrepancy between df and konqueror (properties, ...) > > explainable? > > If I had to guess, I'd say that You're using ext2, ext3, or reiser > (without tail packing)... du reports BLOCKS not bytes. If 'df' says > it is full, then it is full. Although I'm not sure how you have 2 gigs > in consumed blocks on a Gentoo Box. > > > 2) Assuming the gentoo partition is really full, is this normal and is > > there any temporary stuff I should get rid of after emerging kde? > > rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage > rm -Rf /usr/portage/distfiles/* /usr/portage/packages/* > Should free you up some space... Although it may or may not be much. > Distfiles and packages may be things you don't wanna rm. Your choice. > > --NJ >
I'm using ext3, but I always used the human-readable -h option with df and du, so that is not the problem. This is what du tells me: du -h -c /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/ (...) 28K /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/krusader-1.11/temp 32K /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/krusader-1.11 1.6G /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage 1.6G total Can this be true, or is there something wrong with the filesystem (or with me)? And can I remove /var/tmp/portage/* safely? Thanks for any enlightement... -- Jorge Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
