From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 12:37:19 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 BDFEF37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:37:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA6D43E3B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:37:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC49A009; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:37:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from cs.umu.se (h96n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.96]) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2981DA001; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:37:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3DC97D6A.2020205@cs.umu.se> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:36:58 +0100 From: Paul Everlund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I delete /usr/src ? References: <002601c285d2$81da02d0$0701a8c0@darryl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 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 Darryl Hoar wrote: > greetings, > I cvsupped from 4.7-release to 4.7-stable. Followed all the steps to do > that. > I need to reclaim some disk space. Can I delete the files under /usr/src? > Currently it's consuming roughly 340 MB of space ? > > thanks, > Darryl You can delete /usr/src, and also /usr/obj, but next time you want to do an upgrade I guess it will take longer to get all the sources. If you can manage by only delete /usr/obj it would be the best for you, if upgrading in the future. Also, if deleting /usr/src, and hence /usr/src/sys too, you can not compile your kernel if you change any hardware. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message