From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21775 invoked by alias); 8 May 2011 00:32:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 21766 invoked by uid 22791); 8 May 2011 00:32:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 08 May 2011 00:32:32 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QIrvC-0002b2-3C for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 08 May 2011 02:32:30 +0200 Received: from 89.240.197.195 ([89.240.197.195]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 May 2011 02:32:30 +0200 Received: from 50295 by 89.240.197.195 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 May 2011 02:32:30 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Olumide <50295@web.de> Subject: Is it okay to delete Cygwin (mirror) download directories? Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 00:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00073.txt.bz2 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. Thanks, - Olumide -- 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