freeing up space in /usr

[Kent Stewart]

On Saturday 17 May 2003 10:10 am, anclo at anclo.com wrote:
> I attempted to install (from port) pwgen not realizing that it will require
> some X stuff for which I didn't have space. I ended up running out of space
> in my /usr partition. This is what I got:
>
> /]# df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    403150   48736  322162    13%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f    581934       8  535372     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad1s1e   1469006 1468784 -117298   109%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e    483822    6072  439046     1%    /var
> procfs              4       4       0   100%    /proc
>
> and:
>
> /usr]# du -h -d1
>  10M    ./bin
> 8.2M    ./include
>  18M    ./lib
> 9.6M    ./libdata
>  16M    ./libexec
> 108M    ./local
> 6.4M    ./sbin
>  99M    ./share
> 416M    ./src
> 636M    ./ports
>  66M    ./compat
> 4.0K    ./games
> 9.5M    ./obj
> 308K    ./home
>  31M    ./X11R6
> 1.4G    .
>
> Is there a relatively painless way to free up some space in /usr?

Actually, from my experience, you don't have enough system to build most of 
the interesting ports. My current set of distfiles and packages use 1.4GB. I 
have one system that I mount ../ports and it is on a 10GB fs. 

You either need to add more HD space or use prebuilt packages.

Kent
>
> Thanx for any advice,
>
> Anclo
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Kent Stewart
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