From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /] References: <3DC8558D.2030304@iaminsane.net> <3DC859E7.8040802@iaminsane.net> <20021105235922.GA1208@dan.emsphone.com>
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>>>>> "DN" == Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> 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
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