Blown Up /Usr files

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:42:43PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote:
>  As sugested by  Roland Smith,  I looked at /usr/obj as follows:
>  Growler# cd /usr/obj ; ls -al
>  total 6
>  drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 12:08 .
>  drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  512 May 29 14:34 ..
>  drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  512 Mar 30 12:08 usr
>  Growler# du -hs *
>  163M    usr
>  Growler# rm -rf usr
>  Growler#
> 
>  It appears a copy of the /usr directory & files were placed there. Back in 
>  March?  I deleted it as you can see, that got me a little space  and it's 
>  still running...  8-)

It's where the object files and binaries for a buildworld and
buildkernel are stored (they're not put in the source tree). After
you've installed the new kernel & world you can clean it out.

Roland
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