From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 21: 2:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AFF37B43E for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granite.impoffice.ac.th ([203.151.134.100]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA05667 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:57:40 +0700 (GMT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000825110503.008a2c60@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Sender: mcrogerm@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:05:03 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Roger Merritt Subject: Re: Can I Blitz /usr? In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20000824184712.0085e310@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:47 AM 8/24/00 -0700, you wrote: > >> My idea is that I should just delete *everything* in /usr, then run >> /stand/sysinstall and install only the distributions and packages I >> need from the NFS filesystem. Recent experience installing from the >> CD-ROM on a new disk drive indicates that at the end /usr will be about >> 29% full including the source tree. > > Why don't you do pkg_info first, then pkg_delete to get rid of >what you're sure dosen't need to be there... might be quicker and more >efficent for you. That'll free up some space by getting rid of some of the >programs you don't need. :) > > Rick Sounds like a good idea, but when I tried it I discovered pkg_info isn't on the machine. I went to /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install and tried to make it but it didn't work. I also discovered there's no /var/db/pkg/ directory on the machine, so pkg_info wouldn't help in this case. Curious. I wonder how he did that? And why? -- Roger If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't your thing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message