From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 10: 4:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF06153D1 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:04:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine.avalon.com (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA07710; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:00:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19991004125319.009628d0@unix01.voicenet.com> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 12:58:11 -0400 To: J McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Subject: Re: saving space on laptop HD... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Not sure if you already tried this or not, but something that helped me drop off a good amount of unneeded files was to cd /usr and then "make clean". Found out thru the list too that when building ports, it's a lot more effective to "make install clean" or "make install && make clean". That way you never forget to clean up the ./work directories. Hope that helps you out. --john At 05:45 PM 10/4/99 +0100, J McKitrick wrote: >I was just checking my free disk space, and i see that my /usr slice is >49% full. And i don't really ave that much software installed. I have a >2 gig partition and used the standard setup for mount points. That means >that out of 1.87 gig, i only have about half left. Now maybe i have all i >need, but i may need to install star office or something else large like >that. Is there a way t whittle some usage away in this directory? The >only think i was thinking was deleteing unwated ports, but i don't want to >do something i cannot reverse later. Is there a better way? > > >-jm > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message