Moving distfiles to a new filesystem & deleting unused distfiles

FreshPorts pulls down a lot of distfiles (the file distributed by the software author which contains the software). Much more than your average user. Every distfile for every commit is fetched. Let’s look at my private FreshPorts development instance: [13:18 dvl-ingress01 dvl /jails/freshports/usr/ports] % du -ch -d 0 distfiles 125G distfiles 125G total That’s 125GB. […]

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