A handy utility (at least for me)

Bill Vermillion bv at wjv.com
Tue Aug 29 16:25:02 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:00 freebsd-hackers-request at freebsd.org
saw "Error reading FAT table? Try SKINNY table?" And promptly
said:

> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:18:58 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de>
> Subject: Re: A handy utility (at least for me)

> Rick C. Petty wrote:

>  > Mario Lobo wrote:

>  > > My /usr/ports directory was occuping 24 gigs, of which 20
>  > > was just from the 'work' directories !

> You should type "make clean" more often.  ;-)

And to ensure that 'make clean' in the /usr/ports directory runs
much faster, be sure to add   NOCLEANDEPENDS=YES in your
/etc/make.conf.

After you run that on the entire tree besure to comment it out so
that when you run   make clean   inside a port you clean all the
dependancies too.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com


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