Reducing the size of /

[Martin Tournoy]

the /usr/ports/distfiles dir are the source files you downloaded while  
installing ports.
You can safly empty the whole directory

You can delete /boot/kernel.old if the new kernel is working

/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs can be safly deleted

/usr/ports/INDEX-5 can be deleted, it is used for searching ports (make  
search name=) and some portmanagers, yopu might want to keep it...

You can delete /usr/obj

You might want to delete /usr/src, if your not planning to update often  
that is...

If you don't install/upgrade alot of ports, you can delete the ports tree

On Fri, 12 May 2006 16:28:45 -0000, bsd <bsd at todoo.biz> 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 ?
>
>
>
> root:abcdef 18:14 ~ # find -x / -size +10000 -print
> /boot/kernel/kernel
> /boot/kernel.old/kernel
> /root/tmp/dcc.tgz
> /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_5_3_RELEASE
> /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE
> /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_5_4
> /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/ports-all/checkouts.cvs:.
> /usr/ports/INDEX-5
> /usr/ports/distfiles/emacs-21.3.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/gettext-0.13.1.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg/X11R6.7.0-src1.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg/X11R6.7.0-src3.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg/X11R6.8.1-src1.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg/X11R6.8.1-src3.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg/X11R6.8.2-src1.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/xorg/X11R6.8.2-src3.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/bdb/db-4.3.29.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/ezm3/ezm3-1.2-src.tar.bz2
> /usr/ports/distfiles/gettext-0.14.1.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/perl-5.8.6.tar.bz2
> /usr/ports/distfiles/apache21/httpd-2.1.2-alpha.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/apache21/httpd-2.1.3-alpha.tar.bz2
> /usr/ports/distfiles/apache21/httpd-2.1.4-alpha.tar.bz2
> /usr/ports/distfiles/python/Python-2.4.tgz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/python/Python-2.4.1.tgz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/python/Python-2.4.2.tgz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/gettext-0.14.4.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/gettext-0.14.5.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/perl-5.8.7.tar.bz2
> /usr/ports/distfiles/apache2/httpd-2.0.54.tar.bz2
> /usr/ports/distfiles/bind-9.3.2.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
> /usr/ports/distfiles/clamav-0.88.1.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/mysql-4.1.18.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/clamav-0.88.2.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/distfiles/mysql-4.1.19.tar.gz
> /usr/ports/INDEX.db
> /usr/ports/INDEX-5.db
> /usr/ports/INDEX
> /usr/ports/INDEX-6
> /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/libcc_int.a
> /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/libcc_int.a
> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC/kernel
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
> /var/db/mysql/ibdata1
> /var/db/mysql/ib_logfile0
> /var/db/mysql/ib_logfile1
> /var/named/var/log/dns.log.0
> /var/amavis/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist
>
>
> Thks again.
>
>
> Le 12 mai 06 à 18:20, Bill Moran a écrit :
>
>> bsd <bsd at todoo.biz> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the
>>> size of / because I am getting quite full !
>>>
>>> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>>> /dev/ar0s1a    3.8G    2.8G    668M    81%    /
>>> devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
>>> /dev/ar0s1d     60G    1.9G     53G     3%    /home
>>>
>>>
>>> What are the places I could start looking in to delete not so usefull
>>> files, knowing that I am syncing using portsnat (and previously cvsup).
>>
>> Try installing pkg_cutleaves port and see if it can help you clean up
>> unneeded ports.  Also, consider trimming down your log files in / 
>> var/log.
>>
>> You can also use the "du -hd1 /" trick to narrow down where all the
>> space is being used.  Depending on what's installed on the server,  
>> however,
>> I doubt you'll be able to free up much of that space.
>>
>> --Bill Moran
>>
>> MAL: Hell, this job I would pull for free.
>> ZOE: Can I have your share?
>> MAL: No.
>> ZOE: If you die, can I have your share?
>> MAL: Yes.
>>
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