Distfiles

Thank you, that freed up a nice chunk of space! I assume its safe to delete everything in /tmp too...
 
Yes, it's safe. When you start building ports everything that's needed will be downloaded again.

If you have ports-mgmt/portupgrade installed you can also clean it with [cmd=]portsclean -D[/cmd]. This will remove all distfiles for things that aren't in the ports tree. Usually outdated stuff, quite handy if you regularly rebuild things. There's also portsclean -DD which will remove everything that isn't currently installed.

If you have ports-mgmt/portmaster then you can use [cmd=]portsclean --clean-distfiles[/cmd] or [cmd=]portsclean --clean-distfiles-all[/cmd]. Both will remove the distfiles of ports that aren't installed. The latter does it without prompting.
 
xy16644 said:
Thank you, that freed up a nice chunk of space! I assume its safe to delete everything in /tmp too...
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Careful with that. Some things are in use when the system is booted. If you want to clean it out automatically during boot just add to /etc/rc.conf:
Code: 
clear_tmp_enable="YES"

The default setting should be fine though. It clears everything and recreates the directories needed for Xorg.

On Solaris /tmp actually occupies the same diskspace as swap. If some brainiac linux user writes a truck load of temporary data in /tmp (strangly enough they're used to doing that) you run out of virtual memory :x
 
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