From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 7:47:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D7C37B422 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA23436; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:47:40 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id HAA11044; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:47:37 -0700 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:47:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Roger Merritt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I Blitz /usr? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000824184712.0085e310@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > My idea is that I should just delete *everything* in /usr, then run > /stand/sysinstall and install only the distributions and packages I > need from the NFS filesystem. Recent experience installing from the > CD-ROM on a new disk drive indicates that at the end /usr will be about > 29% full including the source tree. Why don't you do pkg_info first, then pkg_delete to get rid of what you're sure dosen't need to be there... might be quicker and more efficent for you. That'll free up some space by getting rid of some of the programs you don't need. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message