Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 23 November 2015 10:30:29 CET, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:32:01 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> > You can build a list of orphaned files with qfile >> > >> > qfile -o $(find / -xdev -type f) >> > >> > You may want to exclude /etc/ from the search path as that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:32:01 -0600, Dale wrote: > > You can build a list of orphaned files with qfile > > > > qfile -o $(find / -xdev -type f) > > > > You may want to exclude /etc/ from the search path as that produces a > > lot of hits. > I get a few hits on this, so far. If it reports that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:32:01 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> You can build a list of orphaned files with qfile >>> >>> qfile -o $(find / -xdev -type f) >>> >>> You may want to exclude /etc/ from the search path as that produces a >>> lot of hits. >> I get a few hits on this, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:42:48 -0600, Dale wrote: > > As with everything Gentoo, it is 100% safe to look at the output and > > make your own decisions. Generally, if its in /lib or /usr/lib it's > > usually fair game, but not if it's in /etc. > I have some in lib directories. I skipped the ones

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:42:48 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> As with everything Gentoo, it is 100% safe to look at the output and >>> make your own decisions. Generally, if its in /lib or /usr/lib it's >>> usually fair game, but not if it's in /etc. >> I have some in lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 00:10:47 -0800, Raymond Jennings wrote: > >> A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned >> by a package. >> >> You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs >> to someone. >> >> But if you find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 00:10:47 -0800, Raymond Jennings wrote: > A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned > by a package. > > You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs > to someone. > > But if you find orphaned junk, it could be fair

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-04 Thread Raymond Jennings
A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned by a package. You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs to someone. But if you find orphaned junk, it could be fair game. If you have something bulky that DOES belong to a package, consider

[gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-10-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/10/15 15:41, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there. df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda374G 61G 9.3G 87% / I've already removed all the files from: /usr/portage/distfiles You can

[gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-10-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/10/15 23:14, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ncdu also makes it easier to find where the space is consumed. "ncdu /" will scan and sort by size. Sorry, should have been: ncdu -x / This will exclude mounted filesystems.