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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:53:03 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Toasting /usr/obj? 
Message-ID:  <39225.969727983@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>  of "Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:04:45 %2B0200." <v0422080ab5f22ff77e5c@[10.0.1.2]> 

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> 	It was my impression that /usr/obj was only used during the 
> process of doing a make update, make buildworld, etc... and that you 
> could safely toast it afterwards if you should happen to temporarily 
> need more space since it would be toasted anyway by the next build.

That is correct.

> 	Is this not correct?  Well, I toasted it, and now I have a very 
> strange /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk that seems to be truncated at line 
> 2373, and /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk appears to be an unreadable 
> binary file (strings just shows garbage).

That's something else entirely and related to the above probably only
by the fact that heavy I/O brings out some sort of evil instability
with your system.  I'd be worried.

- Jordan



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