Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:42:39 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: failed X11 install, now what? Message-ID: <20031116134239.GA887@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031115153052.01b10f40@pop.face2interface.com> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20031115092348.06019cb0@pop.face2interface.com> <20031115185507.GA4754@dds.nl> <6.0.0.22.0.20031115153052.01b10f40@pop.face2interface.com>
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:46:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:55 PM 11/15/2003, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > > >> make all install clean > > > >Did you execute this in /usr/ports? > > No, I forgot to say first cd'd to the X11/XFree86-4 dir. > > >Just as a tip 'df -h' give human readable output. > > Thanks, that helps. > > >You could also move /usr/src/ and /usr/obj to another machine and mount > >them from there. > > Ok, I did rm -r /usr/ports/x11 and now /usr's down to 87%. Didn't I suggest to remove /usr/ports/distfiles/* instead? If you have removed a part of you port tree then you have to resore this later. > That's breathing > room at least. I think pacing this learning experience is a good thing; > I've got Apache, PostgreSQL and Lynx up and running and that's plenty with > Perl for starters. The more digging I do in the Handbook the better off I'm > getting so I think I'll try and avoid trouble for awhile and stay away from > the ports collection. :) > > >du -sh /usr/* gives: > > Alex, could you recommend a way for me to filter out anything under a > certain threshold? Grep wouldn't do the trip for this, right? IOW > list everything on /usr greater than say 50MB? Or am I best off grep'ing > the du output to a little perl app since that's the language I'm most > comfortable with? When i go to look for large directories i use the command 'du | sort -n' and delete stuf manualy. I wouldn't like doing this automaticaly. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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