Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 07:55:59 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system? Message-ID: <022d01c17bc7$90c989c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.43.0112022355440.46594-100000@surreal.nl><016b01c17ba1$504b0750$0a00000a@atkielski.com><20011202233428.A654@northernbrewer.com> <x0adx0n76a.dx0@localhost.localdomain>
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Why does make clean take so long?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
To: "Christopher Farley" <chris@northernbrewer.com>
Cc: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>; "Walter Hop"
<walter@binity.com>; "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>; "FreeBSD Questions"
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 07:34
Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system?
> Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> writes:
>
> > Anthony Atkielski (anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) wrote:
> >
> > > Well, the "make clean" churned for a very long time and appeared to work
okay,
> >
> > I find it much quicker to `cd /usr/ports; rm -R */*/work` rather than
> > recursively clean each port.
>
> I'll bet few people do "make clean" twice. Took several hours, IIRC.
>
> The handbook now gives this alternative (suggested by someone here):
>
> find /usr/ports -depth -name work -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
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