Freeing update disk space

Since moving house, the FreeBSD box has reverted to a headless server, with all updates taking place via the CLI. I have Webmin installed but this is mainly as a backup / alternative and to view a few things graphically, like disk space.

I use the the OneDrive port to manually sync my OneDrive as an offline copy as I only run it on demand so works as an offline copy. The downsize is that I am rapidly running out of disk space as never envisaged a 1Tb store to be backed up to the FB disks.

With the combination of Headless Server and no longer a need for the X interface, I was left with a large number of X applications no longer needed. Just judicious use of PKG Delete and port deinstall I removed a fair amount of unnecessary applications. I thought that was that, but then reminded of the PKG AUTOREMOVE command which freed up another 4Gb from the main drive and 286 packages from the tree. As I look to update to the next branch of the FreeBSD upgrade stream, this should ease the amount of packages and data that will need to be processed to complete the upgrade.