From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 05:42:43 2003 Return-Path: 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 E97BF16A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 05:42:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp08.wxs.nl (smtp08.wxs.nl [195.121.6.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C562043FA3 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 05:42:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp08.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HOG005ZP60J2P@smtp08.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:41:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAGDgebk001553; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:42:40 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAGDgdiE001552; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:42:39 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:42:39 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <6.0.0.22.0.20031115153052.01b10f40@pop.face2interface.com> To: Marty Landman Message-id: <20031116134239.GA887@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <6.0.0.22.0.20031115092348.06019cb0@pop.face2interface.com> <20031115185507.GA4754@dds.nl> <6.0.0.22.0.20031115153052.01b10f40@pop.face2interface.com> cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: failed X11 install, now what? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:42:44 -0000 On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:46:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:55 PM 11/15/2003, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > > >> make all install clean > > > >Did you execute this in /usr/ports? > > No, I forgot to say first cd'd to the X11/XFree86-4 dir. > > >Just as a tip 'df -h' give human readable output. > > Thanks, that helps. > > >You could also move /usr/src/ and /usr/obj to another machine and mount > >them from there. > > Ok, I did rm -r /usr/ports/x11 and now /usr's down to 87%. Didn't I suggest to remove /usr/ports/distfiles/* instead? If you have removed a part of you port tree then you have to resore this later. > That's breathing > room at least. I think pacing this learning experience is a good thing; > I've got Apache, PostgreSQL and Lynx up and running and that's plenty with > Perl for starters. The more digging I do in the Handbook the better off I'm > getting so I think I'll try and avoid trouble for awhile and stay away from > the ports collection. :) > > >du -sh /usr/* gives: > > Alex, could you recommend a way for me to filter out anything under a > certain threshold? Grep wouldn't do the trip for this, right? IOW > list everything on /usr greater than say 50MB? Or am I best off grep'ing > the du output to a little perl app since that's the language I'm most > comfortable with? When i go to look for large directories i use the command 'du | sort -n' and delete stuf manualy. I wouldn't like doing this automaticaly. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/