From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7214 invoked by alias); 8 May 2011 02:07:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 7154 invoked by uid 22791); 8 May 2011 02:07:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm2-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (HELO nm2-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com) (98.139.91.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Sun, 08 May 2011 02:06:37 +0000 Received: from [98.139.91.67] by nm2.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 May 2011 02:06:37 -0000 Received: from [98.136.185.29] by tm7.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 May 2011 02:06:37 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp110.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 May 2011 02:06:37 -0000 Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@108.49.31.43 with login) by smtp110.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 07 May 2011 19:06:36 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE994A801A for ; Sat, 7 May 2011 22:06:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 02:07:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is it okay to delete Cygwin (mirror) download directories? Message-ID: <20110508020635.GA11927@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00074.txt.bz2 On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 01:32:12AM +0100, Olumide wrote: >Hi - > >Over the years I've updated my gotten my Cygwin fix from a number of >mirrors each one of which has left a massive download directory (in >excess of 700Mb) on my hard disk. For example: > >ftp%3a%2f%2flinux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de%2fcygwin >http%3a%2f%2fftp.uni-kl.de%2fpub%2fwindows%2fcygwin%2f >http%3a%2f%2fftp.gwdg.de%2fpub%2flinux%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin%2f > >Now I'm running out of HD space I'm looking to reclaim some of that >space. Is it okay to delete some or all of these directories? I'm >concerned that the Cygwin setup program uses one of these folders to >determine what programs I've currently got installed. Yes. It's perfectly ok to delete everything in your cygwin download directory. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple