Stop updating ports because of User is full

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m69

Hi all. I was updating FreeBSD and when it was updating ports there appeared an error that the user partition is full. What should I do? Is there any way to I use another partiton's space? For example space of extra? How I can change the space of user partition without formating?
Help me please.
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You can try cleaning out old work directories:
# rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work

You can also remove the distfiles you have accumulated.
# rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*

Don't worry about those. If you build a port that needs one of those distfiles it'll be downloaded automatically again.

I definitely recommend moving for example /usr/home/ to its own partition.
You can also set WRKDIRPREFIX to a place with more room. This directory is where all the port work directories will get created.
 
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You can use symlink.

# mkdir /ports-path
# ln -s /ports-path /usr/ports

Replace /ports-path with a valid path in another disk. This may link the ports directory in another partition.

Since you already have /usr/ports, do this instead:

# mv /usr/ports /ports-path
# ln -s /ports-path /usr/ports
 
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