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
