From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 12 17:37:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C67BD16A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:37:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7083843D39 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:37:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20041212173725i92002an78e>; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:37:25 +0000 Message-ID: <41BC81CF.1000201@nbritton.org> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:37:19 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041203) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH> In-Reply-To: <000001c4e052$8a046360$9900000a@ZGISH> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Root directory filling up... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:37:26 -0000 Kiffin Gish wrote: >I recently decided to dump windows and take a much deserved breather with >FreeBSD. So I installed 5.3 and was in for a real treat! > >However, I created a /-directory with 4G and installed the complete ports >stuff from the CD. Now my root directory is almost filled up (after I >installed all the Gnome Desktop stuff). > >I always do a make clean. Is there an easier way to only keep the ports >stuff that is 'really' required? > >I noticed that there are tons of tarballs etc. in the /usr/ports/distfiles >directory. Is it safe to delete all of these? > >Are there any other suggestions to keep my root directory from filling up? > > > What do you mean / is filling up? the default during install is to make 5 partitions /, Swap, /tmp, /var, and /usr. See mine for example: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 739M 64M 616M 9% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e 739M 15M 665M 2% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 69G 25G 38G 40% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 739M 59M 621M 9% /var /dev/ad1s1 28G 24G 3.8G 86% /mnt linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc The most you should need for / is 128MB (I think that is default during install) please sent the output of these commands "df -h", "more /etc/fstab", and "disklabel ad0s1"