From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 12 13:57:39 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 0040716A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:57:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp19.wxs.nl (smtp19.wxs.nl [195.121.6.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B5FE43D5D for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:57:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin.gish@planet.nl) Received: from ZGISH (ip3e833f72.speed.planet.nl [62.131.63.114]) by smtp19.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I8M00KUL441L5@smtp19.wxs.nl> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:57:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:57:37 +0100 From: Kiffin Gish To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_DmwKwCozzqhIlgn+9cmeEQ)" Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 00000000DA18B7C9E0C09641B844D919507EA01684B23C00 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: 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 13:57:39 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_DmwKwCozzqhIlgn+9cmeEQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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! 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? I noticed that there are tons of tarballs etc. in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. Is it safe to delete all of these? Are there any other suggestions to keep my root directory from filling up? -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands --Boundary_(ID_DmwKwCozzqhIlgn+9cmeEQ)--