Oleksiy V. Khilkevich wrote:
Hi!
<code> grim$ cd /usr/ports grim$ du -sh core opt . 3,8M core 16M opt 110M . </code>
Just an idea, but i think that the most of that space is used by .fatprints of stuff like kde/gnome/openoffice/etc
Maybe some kind of compression? I think that gzipped or bzipped .footprint is a great solution! They are rarely viewed by end-users and even developers, so why not to gzip them?
Maybe you need to buy a new hard drive if a 20 megabyte port tree is too "fat" for you? NetBSD pkgsrc tree in comparison takes up about 250 megabytes uncompressed. Now that's what I'd call fat. $ du -sh * 3.8M core 16M opt $ gzip -9 */*/.footprint $ du -sh * 2.3M core 7.6M opt Saving 10 megabytes is not enough to warrant gzipping them, IMHO, but if you really want, you can use a compressed filesystem: http://north.one.pl/~kazik/pub/LZOlayer/ http://www.miio.net/fusecompress/ http://parallel.vub.ac.be/~johan/compFUSEd/ Regards, Jukka