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Date:      Mon, 3 Aug 2015 12:13:35 -0400
From:      Paul Mather <freebsd-lists@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
To:        Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg clean question
Message-ID:  <BB766AA8-B9D2-4998-9CBD-CF0BAAC01F26@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20150803153944.GA2733@knossos>
References:  <20150803153944.GA2733@knossos>

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On Aug 3, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote:

> Amd64, 9.3. Updated few times, packages also. At first I
> found on laptop that /var directory was at 102%. Using
> "pkg clean" i removed about 400mb of cache packages from
> /var/cache/pkg. Tried to clean desktop cache and the out-
> put of the command was "nothing to do". I see about 400
> mb of files in the cache directory. Is it safe to remove
> them by the hand?


Use "pkg clean -ay" to delete all cached packages, not just the ones =
that are no longer current or provided by the upstream repository.

Cheers,

Paul.




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