finding size of port

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Thu Feb 24 10:00:37 PST 2011


On Feb 24, 2011, at 6:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> Yes. All the files a port installs are in /opt/local/var/macports/software/PORTNAME/*, and all the files outside of there are hardlinks to those files. They take up no additional space.

Well, they take up very little additional space (the filesystem does use some space to record the hard link).

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