From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 13:57:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12566 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:57:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from militzer.me.tuns.ca (militzer.me.TUNS.Ca [134.190.50.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12548 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca) Received: from localhost (bemfica@localhost) by militzer.me.tuns.ca (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA03928 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:43:28 -0400 (AST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:43:28 -0400 (AST) From: Antonio Bemfica Reply-To: Antonio Bemfica To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can I delete '/usr/ports'? safely? In-Reply-To: <002894C7.003144@ed.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why would you do that? The ports don't amount to much, probably 50 Mbytes max. Did you actually make all the ports (wow!)? If so, you can just type "make clean" right from /usr/ports and that should recover lots of space for you (or just find the ones you've made: "find /usr/ports work", go there and "make clean" them). Also, /usr/ports/distfiles keeps all the downloaded tar files, you won't need them after you install a port. Having the ports is a good idea, if you use cvsup it'll take care of removing old ones for you (and downloading new ones, of course!). You can even reject some ports by default (japanese and chinese come to mind). Antonio On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Clarence Griffin wrote: > > I just did an evaluation of used disk space, and found that I've > installed all the 'ports' when I set up this new system. > > this makes my /usr director at 103%. > > I'd like to simply delete all the 'ports', but am wondering how that > will impact the system? I'd then want to re-install only those prots > I will actually use. > > Anyone else faced this problem? If so, how did you resolve it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message