From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 21:35:23 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 D54CD16BAD9 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 21:35:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1297743D73 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 21:35:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (adsl-65-65-115-230.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [65.65.115.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E758114307 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 16:29:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:35:41 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200605121236.52992.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <4491F65C-CAB7-4B07-95B9-527677A29E6E@todoo.biz> <20060512122054.77cb6732.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <6BFF1577-071E-4297-82CD-40382ADA8B0F@todoo.biz> <200605121236.52992.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========1973E434798AE35C8E21==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 21:35:31 -0000 --==========1973E434798AE35C8E21========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On May 12, 2006 12:36:52 PM -0400 John Nielsen = wrote: > 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. > And when you install a port, use "make install distclean". That will=20 remove the work directories *and* the distfiles after the port was=20 installed. But, if I were you, I'd backup the box and rebuild with a more sensible=20 partition arrangement. For example, you have 65G of disk space. You could do something likes = this: / 500MB swap 2G /tmp 2G /usr 20G /var 20G /home (the rest) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========1973E434798AE35C8E21==========--