Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:22:10 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? Message-ID: <016b01c17ba1$504b0750$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.43.0112022355440.46594-100000@surreal.nl>
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Well, the "make clean" churned for a very long time and appeared to work okay, but I still have 1.2 GB tied up somewhere. It must be in source files or something. At least I cleaned it up a little bit. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>; "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 00:00 Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? > [in reply to Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, 02/12/01] > > > Pretty cool! I tried it out and it works well. Looks like most of > > the space in /usr is taken up by ports, particularly a port called > > teTeX, which occupies 33 MB alone. What is it? > > Files in /usr/ports/distfiles were (temporary) files downloaded during > previous ports installations; if I am correct you can safely delete > them. > > If you want your /usr/ports dir totally neatly cleaned, you can go into > /usr/ports and issue a ``make clean'', which will clean up all the mess > that installations left around in /usr/ports. (This will not affect the > installed programs, only the temp- and working dirs in /usr/ports) > > > Is there a clean way to delete ports that I don't intend to install, > > and then download them if I ever do decide to put them in? > > Ports only don't cost much space. It's just the distfiles and the > workfiles, a ``make clean'' will solve those problems. > > If you really want to delete an installed port from your system, > ``pkg_delete name'' will do the trick. To see a list of port/package > names that are present, you can do a ``pkg_info''. (I believe this will > not clean up distfiles!) > > -- > Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> > Updated contact information: http://www.binity.com/~walter/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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