On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Philip Webb wrote: > 151001 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/sda3 74G 61G 9.3G 87% / > > I've already removed all the files from /usr/portage/distfiles . > > 'du' is your friend : it has lots of options, so read the 'man'. > that will tell you what's using so much space, then you can delete stuff.
I highly recommend sys-fs/ncdu, an ncurses front end to du. Definitely much better than piping du output through sort. You can even directly delete folders/files when you see that something is taking up more space than expected.
