Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 00:39:09 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? Message-ID: <20011203003909.C393@localhost> In-Reply-To: <012f01c17b83$d94c19e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:51:14PM %2B0100 References: <008301c17af1$910f4a90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <w5k7w5pat6.7w5@localhost.localdomain> <012f01c17b83$d94c19e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:51:14PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Pretty cool! I tried it out and it works well. Looks like most of the > space in /usr is taken up by ports, particularly a port called teTeX, > which occupies 33 MB alone. What is it? It's a TeX distribution, quite a good one. TeX is a typesetting system, if you haven't come across it before. Either you installed the port or, more likely, it was installed as a dependency of some other port or package. There should be a file /var/db/pkg/tetex-[version]/+REQUIRED_BY that lists the packages that depend on the teTeX package. > Is there a clean way to delete ports that I don't intend to install, and > then download them if I ever do decide to put them in? Or maybe load > them back off the CD, in cases where I don't need the latest and > greatest. The big files are mostly in /usr/ports/distfiles. Not that I > need the space _right now_, but I like to keep the system tidy. By 'ports' I assume you mean the stuff in /usr/ports rather than the installed files resulting from building a port. A fresh /usr/ports consumes an insignificant fraction of any modern disk, so I'd be inclined to leave it alone; however, you can always pull a new one with cvsup or unpack it from your CD set (I think the file you want is ports.tgz). However, anything in /usr/ports/distfiles can safely be blown away -- these are leftovers from ports that have been built already. If you want to stop these from accumulating in the first place, do a 'make distclean' after the 'make install' step for any ports that you build. 'man ports' for more info on the various targets that the ports Makefiles understand. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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