Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]

[I am Insane]

That's been my normal experience, / doesn't change in size except for a small amount when I install important / major programs and even then it usually isn't affected. However, I recently installed a few CPAN modules in order to allow pop/imap-before-smtp (as I've found very little information on it I've went with the one at http://popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/ and the readme file states to install the following:
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install Time::HiRes'
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Tail '
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Parse'
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Netmask'
which is when my root file system grew from 45MB or so to over 80MB (normally stays around 45 on my systems)
So I'm trying to figure out why the CPAN modules made root jump to almost double normal size and how/if there is any way to find out which files are maybe source files and can be either moved and/or removed.

Previous to installing those modules my df -k looked like so:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 100750 42754 49936 46% /
/dev/ad0s1g 10080382 727908 8546044 8% /usr
/dev/ad0s1h 15421366 26392 14161266 0% /usr/home
/dev/ad0s1e 201518 3120 182278 2% /var
/dev/ad0s1f 2015918 68 1854578 0% /var/mail
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc

and they had not changed since oct 19th (orig install for 4.7-stable)
Thanks for the reply [:)]
~REM

I am Insane wrote:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Cleaning up /
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:43:21 -0500
From: I am Insane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



I need some help. I'm not a complete newbie but I'm new enough to not know which files are actually needed in my / filesystem.

my current df -k shows

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 100750 82898 9792 89% /
/dev/ad0s1g 10080382 766404 8507548 8% /usr
/dev/ad0s1h 15421366 26432 14161226 0% /usr/home
/dev/ad0s1e 201518 3332 182066 2% /var
/dev/ad0s1f 2015918 144 1854502 0% /var/mail
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc

and I am aware that if / gets to 100% the system has a good chance of crashing.

how can I tell what files can be removed in order to free up some space? and/or how can i tell which files are the largest and need to be addressed?

Thanks in advance,
REM

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