Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 05:49:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Jolok <joshualokken@attbi.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Freeing space on /usr Message-ID: <20020310052551.E342-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <001b01c1c881$1fa24870$06aae00c@jolok>
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Jolok wrote: > Thank you. I've tried installing other ports, too, and i > have the same problem--running out of space on /usr. Any > ideas how to avoid this problem, short of getting the FreeBSD > PowerPak (installing ports from CD). You did not tell us what you found out with # du There must be something big on your /usr slice. I think you will have to find out what it is and get rid of it or copy it to one of your other slices. 1.4 GB should be more than enough to get some nice graphical user interface runing. > Do I have > to install the entire ports collection, or can I pick and chose? The entire ports directory should be about 20 MB or so (check this!) and actually it enables you to pick and choose. Uli. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Ulrich Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> > To: "Jolok" <joshualokken@attbi.com> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:37 AM > Subject: Re: Freeing space on /usr > > > > On Sat, 9 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? > > You can view the size of your directories with something like > > # du -h -d 5 > > (-human readable and - search depth) > > --> # man du > > > 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 *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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