Upgrading and Disk Space.

Grant Peel gpeel at thenetnow.com
Sat May 20 10:58:38 PDT 2006


I have a /usr/src/sys/compile dirs that has 400 meg in it. ( a kernel config 
dir) can I delete it?

-Grant

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Sanford" <lauasanf at wilderness.homeip.net>
To: "Grant Peel" <gpeel at thenetnow.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Upgrading and Disk Space.


> Grant Peel wrote:
>>
>> The idea is to try NOT to fill up the filesystem and crap out duing the 
>> upgrade.
>>
>>
>> 664M    ./src
>> 303M    ./ports
>
> Remove those two if you're doing an upgrade using the discs. If you're 
> building the upgrade from source, you obviously can't do that. If adding a 
> drive is an option, then it becomes easy - put /usr/ports /usr/src and 
> /usr/obj on the new drive and be done with it.
>
> If it helps any, here's some output from a 6.1RC:
>
> root at colossus(/usr)# du -h -d1
> 2.0K    ./.snap
> 13G    ./ports
> 418M    ./src
> 24M    ./bin
> 14M    ./include
> 49M    ./lib
> 92K    ./libdata
> 15M    ./libexec
> 2.8G    ./local
> 13M    ./sbin
> 172M    ./share
> 180K    ./games
> 885M    ./X11R6
> 154M    ./compat
> 743M    ./obj
> 14G    ./home
> 31M    ./sup
> 2.3M    ./lost+found
> 32G    .
> 




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