Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:18:35 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree Message-ID: <20071219161835.GA45237@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <47688E99.4050802@pacific.net.sg> References: <47688E99.4050802@pacific.net.sg>
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:23:05AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought > of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the > compilation is finished. Your better bet is to move your /usr/ports to your largest filesystem and make a symlink to it. Then you should have enough room to make most things. > This should be much faster and also should do some kind o > defragmentation. I simply cannot believe that the huge ports tree will > still be very well organised after some months. There is no problem with this. It is not Microsloth. ////jerry > > What does the list think of this method? > > Erich > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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