From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 8:23:18 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 1627A37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F13143E77 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A402178C for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:23:05 -0500 (EST) Received: by onceler.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 539793D18; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:23:05 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /] Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <3DC8558D.2030304@iaminsane.net> <3DC859E7.8040802@iaminsane.net> <20021105235922.GA1208@dan.emsphone.com> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1036598841 99770 216.194.193.106 (6 Nov 2002 16:07:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 (@kci) X-Razor-id: 7da58638be5a69e91947cefcfa18ea235874f35d 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 >>>>> "DN" == Dan Nelson writes: DN> 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 DN> Using CPAN ends up creating a huge ~/.cpan cache directory in root's DN> home. You can install those modules from ports/packages instead. You can always configure CPAN to use an alternative directory, like /var/cpan or some such. Also, if your /tmp is not a separate file system, you're gonna use up space in your / directory. Personally, I make /tmp an MFS file system. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message