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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:58:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, spork wrote:

> I'm sitting at a workstation upgraded from 2.1.7 to 2.2, and /usr is
> around 490M...  If I recall correctly, it grew about 200-ish megs after
> the upgrade.  I've poked around for things, but /usr/local is a seperate
> partition where I keep stuff that I add myself, and /usr/ports/distfiles
> is all cleaned of old tarballs.  Is there something in the source tree
> that can be blown away?  I'm at a loss...

Odd hunch, check /usr/tmp.

Also, experiment with du and find which directories are your big hogs.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major