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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/
>
>


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