From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 10:27:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B668D16A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:27:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FAB43D48 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:27:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EKCfD-0000hC-P4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:26:19 +0200 Received: from r5k115.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.10.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:26:19 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5k115.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:26:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:24:37 +0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: <43391DE5.2030301@pobox.sk> References: <433850FD.3070403@gish.demon.nl> <20050926225232.69a4b5b3@localhost> <433875F9.1010108@ywave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5k115.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050925 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <433875F9.1010108@ywave.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: Cleanup unused files and other junk ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:27:29 -0000 Micah wrote: > > > jonas wrote: > >> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:50:21 +0200 >> Kiffin Gish wrote: >> >> >>> Is there a good and dependable procedure for cleaning up the file >>> systems from unused junk that just clutters valuable disc space? >>> >>> I am already aware of the 'periodic daily' scripts >>> 'clear_tmp_enable=YES' option for the rc.conf file, but where else >>> can one safely remove files. >> >> >> >> -if you ever did a buildworld then you have the compiled base system >> in /usr/obj, which you can delete. >> -you can scan your filesystem for *.core files (a process creates these >> when it crashes) and delete them. >> -make sure you always do a 'make clean' after installing software from >> the ports. i think portupgrade can scan and cleanup all ports workdirs. >> >> but i think in most cases much more spaces is wasted with stuff in your >> homedir you forgot about ;) >> well at least this is the case for me ... having a deeper look into my >> $HOME/tmp and $HOME/stuff can quickly free some hundred MBs :) >> >> cya, >> jonas > > > For finding those long forgotten things that take up MBs, I've found > kdirstat (for KDE) to be quite useful. Helped me free up a few > gigabytes - all located in my home dir of course. :) > > Later, > Micah x11-fm/xdiskusage