Re: failed X11 install, now what?

From: Alex de Kruijff (freebsd_at_akruijff.dds.nl)
Date: 11/16/03

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    Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:42:39 +0100
To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>

    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
Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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