From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 23 5:17: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C696137B422; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 05:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id FAA00627; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 05:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 05:16:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Toasting /usr/obj? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > It was my impression that /usr/obj was only used during the > process of doing a make update, make buildworld, etc... and that you and make buildkernel, notably. > could safely toast it afterwards if you should happen to temporarily > need more space since it would be toasted anyway by the next build. > > Is this not correct? Well, I toasted it, and now I have a very It is correct. /usr/obj has nothing to do with /usr/ports. > 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). > > > Any suggestions as to what I can do to recover? cvsup ports. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message