On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:23:05AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought > of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the > compilation is finished.
Your better bet is to move your /usr/ports to your largest filesystem and make a symlink to it. Then you should have enough room to make most things. > This should be much faster and also should do some kind o > defragmentation. I simply cannot believe that the huge ports tree will > still be very well organised after some months. There is no problem with this. It is not Microsloth. ////jerry > > What does the list think of this method? > > Erich > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
