After "fink cleanup", you can hfs-compress (only on 10.6) and gain
another factor of two free space:
I tested this on my wife's laptop, just to be safe:
Before:
% du -h -d 1 /sw
300K /sw/Applications
84M /sw/bin
3.1M /sw/etc
61M /sw/fink
4.0M /sw/include
604M /sw/lib
112K /sw/Library
648K /sw/sbin
2.2G /sw/share
5.1M /sw/src
1.1G /sw/var
4.0G /sw
Then do:
sudo mv /sw /sw.1
sudo ditto --hfsCompression /sw.1 /sw
sudo rm -rf /sw.1
After:
% du -h -d 1 /sw
64K /sw/Applications
33M /sw/bin
508K /sw/etc
6.1M /sw/fink
484K /sw/include
199M /sw/lib
44K /sw/Library
208K /sw/sbin
738M /sw/share
5.1M /sw/src
1.0G /sw/var
2.0G /sw
I think it might be faster, too, but I'm not certain.
This also works great with diffraction images.
Bill
On Sep 15, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Andreas Förster wrote:
Hey all (especially Bill, I guess),
I was bushwhacking through the fink jungle on my MacBook Pro
(10.5.8) today and realized just how vast it it. There are 18GB in /
sw. As examples (and to make this email uncannily on-topic), there
are 18 coot_0.6-pre-1-revision-????-?_darwin-i386.deb packages and
14 coot_0.5-pre-1-*_darwin-i386.deb packages in /sw/fink/10.4/
unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/sci.
Is this necessary? How do I clean fink up? I should say that I
compile everything from source.
Thanks.
Andreas
--
Andreas Förster, Research Associate
Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs
Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
