wskellenger's Journal: Free diskspace in Gentoo

Info summarized from the Gentoo forums:

/var/tmp/portage

Everything in here can be removed, although be careful if you are currently installing (emerging?) something, as this is where the source is extracted to. Generally this directory doesn't take up that much space unless you've had a few ebuilds that bombed... In this case all of the source will still be here.

/usr/portage/distfiles

All source code is stored in here, so you can simply delete everything in there to free up space. If you have a broadband connection, this probably won't be of concern. However, if you've got a dialup connection, you might want to burn these files to CD so that you don't have to download them again if you want to re-install something.

/usr/portage/packages

This is where the binary packages are located, if you downloaded any. You can blow these away also.