failed X11 install, now what?

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:46:14PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 01:55 PM 11/15/2003, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:44:43AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> >
> >> make all install clean
> >
> >Did you execute this in /usr/ports?
> 
> No, I forgot to say first cd'd to the X11/XFree86-4 dir.
> 
> >Just as a tip 'df -h' give human readable output.
> 
> Thanks, that helps.
> 
> >You could also move /usr/src/ and /usr/obj to another machine and mount 
> >them from there.
> 
> Ok, I did rm -r /usr/ports/x11 and now /usr's down to 87%. 

Didn't I suggest to remove /usr/ports/distfiles/* instead? If you have
removed a part of you port tree then you have to resore this later.

> That's breathing 
> room at least. I think pacing this learning experience is a good thing; 
> I've got Apache, PostgreSQL and Lynx up and running and that's plenty with 
> Perl for starters. The more digging I do in the Handbook the better off I'm 
> getting so I think I'll try and avoid trouble for awhile and stay away from 
> the ports collection. :)
> 
> >du -sh /usr/* gives:
> 
> Alex, could you recommend a way for me to filter out anything under a 
> certain threshold? Grep wouldn't do the trip for this, right? IOW 
> list  everything on /usr greater than say 50MB? Or am I best off grep'ing 
> the du output to a little perl app since that's the language I'm most 
> comfortable with?

When i go to look for large directories i use the command 'du | sort -n'
and delete stuf manualy. I wouldn't like doing this automaticaly.

-- 
Alex

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