--On May 12, 2006 12:36:52 PM -0400 John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
remove the work directories *and* the distfiles after the port was
installed.
But, if I were you, I'd backup the box and rebuild with a more sensible
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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
