Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-18 Thread Roman Zilka
Michael Sullivan (Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:19:14 -0500): I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. My USE line in /etc/make.conf looks like this: USE=-setup declarative static-libs gallium moonlight

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:30:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm pretty sure those number don't add up to 21G. So why is it saying they do??? You have to understand what du is measuring, and that you are not supposed to add the numbers up. ./ is 21G Then, each individual directory is

[gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. My USE line in /etc/make.conf looks like this: USE=-setup declarative static-libs gallium moonlight semantic-desktop -kdeprefix -aqua policykit cdda vhosts automount

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread James Wall
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how.  My USE line in /etc/make.conf looks like this: USE=-setup declarative static-libs gallium

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
I don't know much about what each USE flag below actually does. All of them have been recommended to me by various elog messages and failed attempts at emerge. I'm trying to put all the flags emerge recommends for a particular package in /etc/portage/package.use now. Can any of the below flags

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:19:14 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. It's impossible to answer that without knowing what is on /. Is /var on /? If so do you use logrotate, or is

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
I don't understand how to use logrotate, but I'm pretty sure cron runs it. /var/lib/mysql was using 21G, so I think I can go in there (or at least into the mysql client) and delete the databases that I myself have created and am no longer using. If I understood the command you recommended it

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
What should I do about the *-bin files in /var/lib/mysql? I've dropped the databases I've created and don't need anymore, but there's still a lot of files in there, and it's still 21G. There are several files there dated 2008 that are also on another computer. How do I safely remove them? On

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread kashani
On 7/17/2011 2:19 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. Assuming your / partition isn't tiny I've never seen removing packages or changing use flags make enough of a difference

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:48:28 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: What should I do about the *-bin files in /var/lib/mysql? I've dropped the databases I've created and don't need anymore, but there's still a lot of files in there, and it's still 21G. There are several files there dated 2008 that

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:34:38 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Please don't top-post, it makes conversations harder to follow. I don't understand how to use logrotate, but I'm pretty sure cron runs it. You should check that it is enabled and that you have rotated files in /var/log.

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
Does this make sense: camille mysql # du -h 572K./mysql 8.0K./test 239M./mythconverg 128K./vpopmail 152K./myFantasy 120K./pmadb 332K./wikidb 36K ./mysql_cpp_data 592K./forum 124K./movies 84K ./myusers 4.4M./mythconverg.bak 21G . I'm pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread kashani
On 7/17/2011 4:18 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: Does this make sense: camille mysql # du -h 572K./mysql 8.0K./test 239M./mythconverg 128K./vpopmail 152K./myFantasy 120K./pmadb 332K./wikidb 36K ./mysql_cpp_data 592K./forum 124K./movies 84K ./myusers 4.4M

Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system

2011-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 17 July 2011 18:18:58 Michael Sullivan did opine thusly: Does this make sense: camille mysql # du -h 572K ./mysql 8.0K ./test 239M ./mythconverg 128K ./vpopmail 152K ./myFantasy 120K ./pmadb 332K ./wikidb 36K ./mysql_cpp_data 592K ./forum 124K ./movies 84K