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
I'll agree with the other suggestions which i'll put here:
1) rm -r /var/tmp/portage/* (the /* is important)
2) rm -r /usr/portage/distfiles/*
3) Keep your kernel sources compressed until you need them. This saves
about 190MB or something:
cd /usr/src/ ; tar cj linux-`uname -r` -f linux-`uname
-r`-COMPRESSED.tar.bz2 && rm -r linux-`uname -r` obviously you'll
have to untar and re-delete that tree if you actually need it.
Here's a new one. Once you have more space, IF you have kde, filelight
is a nice way to see space usage and track it down quickly and see it in
a great visual format. Be sure to go into its settings, though, and tell
it to cross filesystem boundaries, and also show small files.
I'll also agree that reiserfs (3) is nice in that by default it packs
tails, i.e. compresses the ends of blocks. Over a whole system this can
add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable.
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