Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 00:00:39 +0100 (CET) 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> Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.43.0112022355440.46594-100000@surreal.nl> In-Reply-To: <012f01c17b83$d94c19e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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[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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