From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 0: 6:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EB537B405 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA13906; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:05:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:05:15 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Jolok Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Freeing space on /usr In-Reply-To: <002501c1c881$2e464ca0$06aae00c@jolok> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Jolok wrote: > hello: > > i just made xfree86-4.2.0 after a clean install of FreeBSD 4.5 with the > ports collection and no x. the make went well, but after 'make install', it > cooks along for awhile, then i run out of space on my /usr slice. i am > running a 3.2 GB disk with s 1.4GB /usr slice--why is this happening? I was > under the impression that FreeBSD was fairly small. What can i safely > delete (or move) to make room for X? How do I find the size of any > particular directory? Where (in the standard documentation) should i read > about this? I do read before i mail, but i haven't found any help yet. > Thank you. > > jolok > Hard to tell what else you've got there--in /usr/home, /usr/ports, /usr/src (and maybe the output of a buildworld in /usr/obj). Use the du command to look around. You might be able to delete some categories from /usr/ports like foreign languages--/usr/ports/japanese might be one category you don't need, for example. Also /usr/ports/distfiles can get quite large if you don't delete distfiles after getting them. You can also put distfiles elsewhere and create a symbolic link, if you've got space elsewhere. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message