From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 12:33:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (48-MADR-X47.libre.retevision.es [62.82.49.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020BC37BCC4 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:33:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sjmudd@pobox.com) Received: from unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org (unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org [44.133.228.2]) by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6639D3A3B for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:11:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F351E1A1; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:18:50 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeing up space on 3.4 References: <3.0.5.32.20000229134450.009f6260@midwest.net> From: Simon J Mudd Date: 29 Feb 2000 21:18:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: parrothd@midwest.net's message of "29 Feb 2000 20:54:00 +0100" Message-ID: <86hfersqxh.fsf@unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Jonathan: parrothd@midwest.net ("Jonathan E. Lyons") writes: > Try /usr/ports/make clean, this will remove all temporary port build files, > also you may wanna look in /usr/ports/distfiles/ and delete any old > files(these were used by the ports), as for /usr/src/ you can > /tar/delete/backup/ but you will need these files if you need to recompile. I'll delete the /usr/ports and /usr/src/ stuff. I guess that will help until I need to do another make world. > Also read man du, this can help you track down some wasted space..... I think you missed my point. Finding the files is one thing, finding "what they belong to" is another. I'm feeling a bit lost without a package manager such as rpm. (pkg_info doesn't tell you everything on the system.) Thanks for the pointers anyway. Simon -- Simon J Mudd, Madrid SPAIN Tel: +34-91-408 4878 email: sjmudd@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message