Quoting Dave Lillis <ishnid at gmail.com>:
> You can also free up space by clearing out /var/tmp/portage, where
> portage puts its temporary files and can get big if emerge is aborted
> or crashes.
>
> There's more info on freeing disk space at this URL:
>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30547
>
> -- Dave
>
> On 5/14/05, Rafael Muñoz Moreno-Davila <rmmd at t-d-e.org> wrote:
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> > It's exactly what I've done. I just forgot to type in the full path.
> > Now I'm happy I gained something like 5Gb. It's enough for a little while.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
A better choice rather than clearing out /usr/portage/distfiles and/or
/usr/protage/packages is to place them on a another disk which has lots of space
and symlink to the directories. This means you free up the space in /usr but
then don't have to redownload a load of files again should you need to rebuild
any.
--
Darragh
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