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== Some common space hogs ==


== removing distfiles==
 rm /usr/portage/distfiles/*

== removing old kernel sources ==

Just a couple old kernel sources can consume multiple Gigabytes as seen below

 # du -sh /usr/src/*                                                                                   /usr/src
 0       /usr/src/linux
 946M    /usr/src/linux-3.4.9-gentoo
 1001M   /usr/src/linux-3.5.4-gentoo
 1021M   /usr/src/linux-3.7.4-gentoo

 # du -sh 
 2.9G    /usr/src/

'''DON'T blow them away with rm, use emerge'''

 emerge --ask --depclean gentoo-sources

'''Protecting sources'''

Use --noreplace to protect and sources which you don't want removed

example:
 root # emerge --ask --noreplace gentoo-sources:3.3.8

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