From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 15:59:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF5F37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6A243E7B for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:59:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gA5NxMLP001084; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:59:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:59:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: I am Insane Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /] Message-ID: <20021105235922.GA1208@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3DC8558D.2030304@iaminsane.net> <3DC859E7.8040802@iaminsane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DC859E7.8040802@iaminsane.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 05), I am Insane said: > That's been my normal experience, / doesn't change in size except for a > small amount when I install important / major programs and even then it > usually isn't affected. However, I recently installed a few CPAN modules > in order to allow pop/imap-before-smtp (as I've found very little > information on it I've went with the one at > http://popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/ and the readme file states to install > the following: > % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Time::HiRes' > % perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Tail ' > % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Parse' > % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Netmask' > which is when my root file system grew from 45MB or so to over 80MB > (normally stays around 45 on my systems) > So I'm trying to figure out why the CPAN modules made root jump to > almost double normal size and how/if there is any way to find out which > files are maybe source files and can be either moved and/or removed. Using CPAN ends up creating a huge ~/.cpan cache directory in root's home. You can install those modules from ports/packages instead. pkg_add -r p5-Net-Netmask p5-File-Tail p5-Time-HiRes Although I don't see one for Date::PArse. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message