On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:10:00 -0900 Royce Williams <ro...@tycho.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:55 PM, andrew clarke <m...@ozzmosis.com> > wrote: > > On Sun 2014-11-16 23:29:37 UTC+0100, Dr. Peter Voigt > > (pvo...@uos.de) wrote: > > > >> I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. > >> My hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all > >> files under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g. > >> > >> # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* > >> > >> I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback. > > > > Yes. Missing distfiles will be redownloaded when/if you rebuild a > > port. > > You can also delete just the unused ones, if you're using portmaster > or portupgrade ('portsclean' command). See the bottom of the "Using > the Ports Collection" docs page: > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html > > Even if you don't use portmaster for anything else, using it for this > purpose is worth the install, IMO. > > Royce Yeah, that's nice. I have just executed: # portmaster --clean-distfiles -y Which freed up 8 GiB of disk space. Thanks, Peter _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"