From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 17:12:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.gu.edu.au (kraken.itc.gu.edu.au [132.234.250.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CDF37B406; Sun, 12 May 2002 17:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (daemon@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au [132.234.86.1]) by mailhost.gu.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g4D0CK517771; Mon, 13 May 2002 10:12:23 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g4D0CHTo023283; Mon, 13 May 2002 10:12:17 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:12:17 +1000 (EST) From: Steven Goodwin To: Joshua Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk space problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 12 May 2002, Joshua wrote: > hello > > I have fresh install of 4.5R on 3.12 GB HDD, with XFree86-4.2.0 > and lynx installed. I am trying to build the gnome port. My /usr > slice is 1.2 GB. I keep running out of space on /usr. What can I > safely get rid of to make room for this build? I have no sources > installed. It seems that I am not 'using disk space correctly', > could this be the case? in other words, maybe my swap space > isn't being used, etc. Can anyone help? I have the same problem with my P90 gateway with its < 2GB drive so I don't keep /usr/ports, /usr/src, /usr/obj on it. When needed, I nfs mount these directories which frees up *heaps* of space making sure to make clean afterwards (because the nfs client/server CPU architectures are different). Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message