Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:10:18 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Try to delete files Message-ID: <200307100710.19030.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <3F0D4C46.5040502@iinet.net.au> References: <3F0D4C46.5040502@iinet.net.au>
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On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:21 am, Nigel Taylor wrote: > Hi all, > > Hi, in my years of using freebsd i have collected alot of distfiles > in the ports tree and i want to free up some space on my harddrive > and i was wondering is there a command to delete files in the > distfiles folder that are less than the year 2000? > > Or maybe there is a program that deletes all the older releases in > the distfiles? if someone could help i would be gratefully Install /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade Then "portsclean -CD" to remove "work" files from /usr/ports/ and to remove all non-referenced files in /usr/ports/distfiles/ Its not safe to delete distfiles older than 2000 because a very large number of current distfiles are much older than that. Use "ls -lt" to see for yourself after having cleaned up with portsclean. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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