From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 09:00:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B60106566C for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com (mail-ew0-f206.google.com [209.85.219.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8E28FC15 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy2 with SMTP id 2so1432403ewy.43 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:00:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=PYHvZl6sF3914uTDE1s5UqycW0bDe1HeSsfs87kvEUs=; b=YkZ91Lri+nIMD5Xhr/GMfvmpcf+bjdUdQE0t6vqe0SCt/vRbwnLID24buvcDFibvdC INn3keBVR2IuwVNB9W/s/T7rjg8KL053VvpmD8tcirUvHyAJOP8QnOCA2BavyOGRgml5 DojIO+u7jVJabnmtCs3elQ985fIiodmiwaqDo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ecl2Gg3QrIhZQB6f7USxLrmxW6gWkwkAbg19Cl+9gQRAb1F/dA7z2CGxohSMFXnYPS 0VrqzgIZet9t8Qnx3A+UcKdR5SLwOWM3dq+8XyF4XNNtFLtyaO1+h8l2Er62kCx3FRTS P8vjlKQf9s6tG/bh+Q8jcjcpEyPqN6/D9GOG8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.70.205 with SMTP id p55mr186233wed.55.1249635646888; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:00:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090807064233.GC84268@thought.org> References: <20090807064233.GC84268@thought.org> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:00:46 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Gary Kline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: not dead [yet]. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:00:48 -0000 On 8/7/09, Gary Kline wrote: > > Hmm. here is the output from df: > > ~ > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 507630 363386 103634 78% / > devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s1e 507630 107700 359320 23% /tmp > /dev/ad0s1f 32816996 24508992 5682646 81% /usr > /dev/ad0s1d 2007598 862818 984174 47% /var > linprocfs 4 4 0 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc > > Since this box was a give and top qual, a Dell running a 2.4GHz, no > complaints. > I asked and the gifter installed two optical drives and a new secondary hard > drive. > > '07, i think. so do i really have > 300G? the thing i don't understand is: > *what* > could be using up 80% of /usr? > > For as much as I use things-gui, i like both KDE and Gnome. Hate to have > all them > electrons weighing things down with, say, koffice, when i don't use it. > > gary > I must have missed something in this thread. Last time I looked, we were talking about port deletions. At a glance, it looks like you have about 35Gb -- the df output says that those are 1kb blocks. It also looks like /usr/local is not a separate mountpoint, so both the base system software in /usr and the third-party software in /usr/local are counting towards the roughly 23Gb used in /usr. (But why ask us? Just run du(1) or something, and find out.) I have older hardware, so I use the CLI as much as I can, and favor lightweight programs, only using a few components of Gnome. If you feel overburdened, consider dropping one of the desktops, or using a lightweight alternative like Xfce. Or do like I do and just use a lightweight windows manager, not a full desktop, and cherrypick a few pieces of software from the full desktops. This person was giving you a computer for free, and you somehow managed to get them to install new, extra drives before they handed it over?! Tell them I need one, too. b.