From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 19:54:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B223214E20 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:54:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA78660; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:45:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:45:43 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: chuck sumner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src - do i need to keep it? In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, chuck sumner wrote: > I installed the entire source tree on my box, recompiled a new > kernel, and everything is working fine. > > Is there any reason to keep the /usr/src directory, or can I just rm > -rf /usr/src? > > The only reason I ask is that /usr is 95% full. > > Thank you. > > Chuck > > PLEASE ACT ACCORDINGLY. > you might want to keep your kernel configuration file. or possibly just /usr/src/sys (which includes the config file) so you could build another kernel with the same sources if you wanted to add something sometimes I tar up /usr/src and /usr/obj and save them somewhere so I can reinstall, or install on another drive. you might find some files you don't need in /usr/ports/distfiles, too; or in work directories of ports you've already installed Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message