I will not give up!

[JJ Neff]

I have gentoo installed as well on a server and I think what he was asking was
about uninstalls.  Gentoo had (may have now) no good uninstall routine to
uninstall all the pieces of an application so you end up with lots of cruft.

Also I made the /var/tmp almost a GB - I think it was the var/tmp it's been so
long since I've actually logged onto that machine.  I'll look again later and
see what drive I had to make HUGE becase it kept running out of space.  I tried
to reduce the drive space afterwards (I'm using EVMS2) but I couldn't shrink
the space.

Anyway that's what I remember.

JJN
--- Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Greg Neumann <dadneumann at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> > Dave,
> > Has Gentoo made sense of what to do w/ all the temporary files you end 
> > up with? I installed Gentoo about a year ago, and ripped it off because 
> > I kept running out of temp space w/ a 1 gig /tmp partition! I can't 
> > afford larger drives, and that space is precious. When I tried to make 
> > intelligent deletions, I ended up w/ crippled X, etc. In this respect, 
> > Gentoo was as bad as Windows, eating drive space for no good reason.. 
> > Past that, Gentoo was pretty nice.
> > -Greg Neumann
> 
> I've only had an occasionally issue with /usr/portage/distfiles filling up, 
> but that's easily remedied.  The normal build point is /var/tmp/portage, (for
> compiling) but once a package is built it's build files are removed, so
> /var/tmp portage doesn't grow.  it WILL leave a directory behind in
> /var/tmp/portage, but those take minimal space.  (I don't know for 100% sure
> if
> portage uses those old dirs or not....)
> 
> It's important to make sure there's enough space on the FS where /var is
> mounted or you could run into built issues...  I typically use multiple
> filesystems, and split things up so that if one FS fills it doesn't crash the
> system.  I usually have "/" be about 200 megs, and have /usr, /var, /tmp and
> /home (and /opt) as separate partitions. 
> 
> my current partition layout is like:
> /dev/sda1               247903    116730    118374  50% /
> /dev/sda5               396656    258277    117900  69% /var
> /dev/sda6               404784      6260    398524   2% /tmp
> /dev/sda7              4695344    190660   4504684   5% /scratch
> /dev/sda8             11345200   4569232   6775968  41% /opt
> /dev/sdb1              9211184   8168468   1042716  89% /media/audio
> /dev/sdb3              8057152    644540   7412612   8% /scratch3
> /dev/sdc1              5877728   3376132   2501596  58% /home
> /dev/sdc3             11473920   7452000   4021920  65% /usr
> /dev/sdd1             17775148  12694308   5080840  72% /other
> none                    386752         0    386752   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sde1            156278784 156278724        60 100% /mnt/disk
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
> 
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