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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 22:46:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>,
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Subject: Re: Any reason not to remove /usr/obj/* ?
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On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, 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.

I would like some clarification on this.  There seem to be about 150
megabytes in my /usr/obj.  I thought this was created as an intermediate
step in the make world process.  Would leaving it there shorten the time
on a subsequent make world, or does everything in any case get remade?
If so, the only purpose of keeping these around is as a "spaceholder"
for a future made world.  

	Annelise	
> 
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