From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 3:17:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177DB37B402 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 03:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from Alex ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GSR8OQ00.904; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:17:14 +0100 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:17:05 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <321842940.20020310121705@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: "Jolok" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freeing space on /usr In-Reply-To: <001d01c1c896$e76a7d90$06aae00c@jolok> References: <001d01c1c896$e76a7d90$06aae00c@jolok> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hello Jolok, Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:51:36 AM, you wrote: J> hello: J> i just made xfree86-4.2.0 after a clean install of FreeBSD 4.5 with the J> ports collection and no x. the make went well, but after 'make install', it J> cooks along for awhile, then i run out of space on my /usr slice. i am J> running a 3.2 GB disk with s 1.4GB /usr slice--why is this happening? I was J> under the impression that FreeBSD was fairly small. What can i safely J> delete (or move) to make room for X? How do I find the size of any J> particular directory? Where (in the standard documentation) should i read J> about this? I do read before i mail, but i haven't found any help yet. J> Thank you. J> jolok The /usr slice have two large directories: /usr/src and /usr/obj (there may be one or two more). You can also relocate these to an other slice, on which you have space, with a sym link. -- Best regards, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message