Reducing the size of /

John Nielsen lists at jnielsen.net
Fri May 12 09:37:24 PDT 2006


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.

JN


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