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   Anthony.Youngman@ECA-International.com wrote:   
   > On Jun 19, 3:22 am, ray  wrote:   
   >> I find that my 10gb Gentoo partition has filled up. I find 1.8gb in   
   >> /var/tmp/ccache and 1.2gb in /usr/src. I've been looking at gentoo.org in   
   >> the docs section to find appropriate commands to clean things out, but   
   >> without luck, so far. Can someone tell me how to do that or at least what   
   >> is safe to delete.   
   >>   
   > I'm guessing that /var/tmp means it really is temporary :-)   
   >   
   > How big is your swap partition? I deliberately created a 10Gb swap on   
   > my system (I multi-boot, and have allocated an 80Gb disk to Gentoo :-)   
   > so I mounted /tmp as a tmpfs partition.   
      
   So this means that those 10 GB are used as tmpfs mounts when you run out   
   of memory? But is this not negative for performance?   
      
   > If you look in fstab, there's probably a partition put there by   
   > default that's tmpfs. Wipe the contents of /var/tmp, edit fstab to   
   > mount it tmpfs, and bingo - every reboot the contents just go away ...   
   > as I find various ...tmp's I'll probably do the same.   
      
   Wiping various dirs can be done with tmpreaper (that you can put in a   
   cronjob for instance) and clearing out standard locations for scratch   
   can be done by setting WIPE_TMP to yes in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc.   
      
   Wimmy   
      
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