From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 12 18:05:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7D516A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:05:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D609C43D45 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:05:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20041212180529i9100rfo6ee>; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:05:30 +0000 Message-ID: <41BC8863.3080403@nbritton.org> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:05:23 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041203) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kiffin Gish References: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH> In-Reply-To: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root directory filling up... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:05:31 -0000 Kiffin Gish wrote: >I recently decided to dump windows and take a much deserved breather with >FreeBSD. So I installed 5.3 and was in for a real treat! > > Great!, I too have finally switched my main workstation (about 1 month ago) from Win2K to FreeBSD 5.3, at the console I feel at home (was a DOS guy before windows) but I feel like a fish out of water with gnome/kde/xfce, Is there anything that emulates the feel of the Win2K wiget set (not XP, ick) and Windows Explorer File Manager?, also, I miss my Winamp 5 (loved the Internet Radio part the of Media Library and I used Explorers List view to manage my music), XMMS, Rhythmbox, and Nautilus just don't do it for me. >However, I created a /-directory with 4G and installed the complete ports >stuff from the CD. Now my root directory is almost filled up (after I >installed all the Gnome Desktop stuff). > >I always do a make clean. Is there an easier way to only keep the ports >stuff that is 'really' required? > > use "portsclean -CDD" you need to have portupdate installed as this is a tool of that package, you could also try the -L and -P flags for more cleaning (read the man page before using these flags). >I noticed that there are tons of tarballs etc. in the /usr/ports/distfiles >directory. Is it safe to delete all of these? > > Again, "portsclean -CDD with purge all the tarballs that arn't used / installed but you could delete everthing in there if your really short on space. >Are there any other suggestions to keep my root directory from filling up? > > >