From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 16:37:20 2006 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 7F93016AA1D for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 16:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2911843D81 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 16:37:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k4CGbIQN022306; Fri, 12 May 2006 09:37:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:36:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <4491F65C-CAB7-4B07-95B9-527677A29E6E@todoo.biz> <20060512122054.77cb6732.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <6BFF1577-071E-4297-82CD-40382ADA8B0F@todoo.biz> In-Reply-To: <6BFF1577-071E-4297-82CD-40382ADA8B0F@todoo.biz> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605121236.52992.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: Reducing the size of / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:37:24 -0000 On Friday 12 May 2006 12:28, bsd wrote: > Hi again, > > Most of the files that are "large" seems to be located in /usr/ports/ > distfiles/ > > What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ? You will have to download them again if you rebuild / reinstall the packages that use them. Of course, that happens automatically and there's a good chance that you'll need a new version next time you update your installed ports, so go ahead and delete them, especially if you have a good Internet connection. JN