From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 23 9:53:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFCD37B422 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8NGr3639229; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:53:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Toasting /usr/obj? In-Reply-To: Message from Brad Knowles of "Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:04:45 +0200." Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:53:03 -0700 Message-ID: <39225.969727983@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message