Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:13:49 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> Cc: "Jeff Fulton" <jefff@fulton.net.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failing on -stable Message-ID: <200001300413.WAA87975@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> of "Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:06:26 EST." <00012922092900.12213@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain>
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Walter Brameld writes: > Dear lord, that would be a piece of work. I'm not a Guru of FreeBSD, > but just out of curiosity, did you clean out /usr/obj before > building? If not, try that before anything else more drastic: > > # cd /usr/obj > # chflags -R noschg * > # rm -rf * May I suggest that it is faster to: # cd /usr/obj/ # rm -rf * >& /dev/null # chflags -R noschg * # rm -rf * Just ignore the error messages from the first "rm -rf". This method is faster because the first rm removes all the files that don't need chflags' attention. In the first example you chflags thousands of files that don't need it. Here chflags and the second rm are almost instantaneous. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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