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From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net>
To: "Doug White" <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 97 20:42:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: Any reason not to remove /usr/obj/* ?
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On Sun, 24 Aug 1997 18:58:06 -0700 (PDT), Doug White wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
>
>> 	I'm geetting a ltlle tight on disk space, and I noticed a directory
>> 	called /usr/obj go by while making my backup.
>> 
>> 	Other than the posibilty of not having enough room left to do a make
>> 	world, is there any reason not to remove the contents of this
>> 	directory?
>
>If you're not doing any 'make world's, then /usr/obj is destroyable.

	Yanno.. this is one of those things I've never been clear on.  Can
you explain to a non-programmer the function of /usr/obj, and why one
would want to keep it if one *were* planning to make the world again? 
I've seen "rm -r /usr/obj/*" as a solution to so many make world problems,
that on those few occasions when I do make the world, I routinely delete
everything in /usr/obj because I can't afford for the system to harf in
the middle of the build (I'm 600 miles away).  What would keeping /usr/obj
around do for me, how can I be "safe" if I do keep it around, and what
should be the deciding factor(s)?  I checked the upgrade tutorial, and
didn't find anything about /usr/obj.

Thanks,

Doug

Do thou amend they face,
	and I'll amend my life.
-Shakespeare, "Henry V"