From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 26 19:50:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A099616A41F for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:50:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C03C43D48 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:50:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:13592 helo=[192.168.1.34]) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EJyzT-000Amd-7M for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:50:19 +0000 Message-ID: <433850FD.3070403@gish.demon.nl> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:50:21 +0200 From: Kiffin Gish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050918) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Cleanup unused files and other junk ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kiffin@gish.demon.nl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:50:20 -0000 Is there a good and dependable procedure for cleaning up the file systems from unused junk that just clutters valuable disc space? I am already aware of the 'periodic daily' scripts 'clear_tmp_enable=YES' option for the rc.conf file, but where else can one safely remove files. For example, is it safe to delete all distfiles? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands