Clean up custombuild directory, what can i delete? (need more space?)

[janton]

Dear All,

I have directadmin for a long time and never cleaned the custombuild directory, because I never run low on diskspace.
Now it seems my server is more used i need more space, i checked my my hdd and noticed the custom dir:
3.2G ./usr/local/directadmin/custombuild

Time to clean that right?


What can i delete there? and what is the best way?

I see the following files and directories there:

-bash-3.2# ls
APC-3.1.13
APC-3.1.13.tgz
all_locales-1.4.18-20090526.tar.gz
apr-1.5.0.tar.gz
apr-util-1.5.3.tar.gz
autoconf-2.68.tar.gz
automake-1.13.1.tar.gz
build
configure
curl-7.19.5
curl-7.20.0
curl-7.21.3
curl-7.21.4
curl-7.21.6
curl-7.35.0.tar.gz
custom
custombuild.log
dovecot-1.2.1
dovecot-1.2.11
dovecot-1.2.14
dovecot-1.2.15
dovecot-1.2.16
dovecot-2.0.10
dovecot-2.0.11
dovecot-2.0.12
dovecot-2.0.13
dovecot-2.0.9
dovecot-2.2.10.tar.gz
dovecot.boot
dovecot.boot.debian
dovecot.boot.freebsd
dovecot.conf
exim.conf.dovecot.patch
freetype-2.3.12
freetype-2.5.2.tar.gz
httpd-2.0.63
httpd-2.2.15
httpd-2.2.16
httpd-2.2.17
httpd-2.2.18
httpd-2.2.19
httpd-2.2.20
httpd-2.2.26.tar.gz
httpd_2
httpd_2_debian
httpd_2_freebsd
icu4c-4_8_1_1-src.tgz
jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
libiconv-1.13
libiconv-1.14.tar.gz
libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz
libpng-1.2.42
libtool-2.4.2.tar.gz
libxml2-2.7.6.tar.gz
libxslt-1.1.28.tar.gz
m4-1.4.16.tar.gz
mhash-0.9.9.9.tar.gz
mime.types
mod_perl-2.0.4.tar.gz
modsecurity-apache_2.5.12.tar.gz
modsecurity-apache_2.5.12.tar.gz.1
mysql
mysql_backups
mysql_backups.log
options
options.conf
package.xml
patches
pcre-7.9
pcre-8.01
pcre-8.02
pcre-8.10
pcre-8.20.tar.gz
php-5.3.28.tar.gz
phpMyAdmin-3.5.8.2-all-languages.tar.gz
phpopt
proftpd
proftpd-1.3.3
proftpd-1.3.3a
proftpd-1.3.3b
proftpd-1.3.3c
proftpd-1.3.3d
proftpd-1.3.4d.tar.gz
proftpd_debian
proftpd_freebsd
roundcubemail-0.9.5.tar.gz
servers.txt
squirrelmail-1.4.22.tar.gz
suphp-0.7.1.tar.gz
versions.txt
webalizer-2.23-08-src.tgz

 

[nobaloney]

I believe there's a custombuild command which will delete everything it doesn't need, but in any event you should be able to delete any of the tarballs; either version of custombuild should be able re-download any tarballs it needs.

Jeff

 

[zEitEr]

Time to clean that right?

I don't see anything wrong there, you don't have numerous copies of software with different versions

Anyway if you want to clean it, just try and run

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/
./build clean

if after that you still have a number of archives in the directory, then simple remove them one by one or with the following command:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/
rm -fv *.tar.gz

But if you need to free up some space, then you should look into mysql_backups directory. That might have Gbs of backups of your MySQL tables.

 

[janton]

@zEitEr

Yes can i delete the mysql backups there? as that indeed takes up some GB's

 

[smtalk]

Yes, you can remove mysql backups, if you don't need them. build and options.conf are the only 2 files that are required for CB 2.0 to run It would re-download other missing files with the next run.

 

[zEitEr]

By the way the latest versions of CB allow to change the path for MySQL backups, so you might want to store them in /home/mysql_backups for example, where you might have more disk space.

 

[anas_xrt]

What I normally use is

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build clean
rm -fv /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/*.tar.gz
rm -fv /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/*.tgz
rm -fv /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/*.bz2
rm -fv /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/mysql/*

 

[smtalk]

I'd like to note that compression for mysql backups can be enabled in the options.conf, this should save some space too.