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To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>,
	Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>,
	"Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>,
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Subject: Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system?
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From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 02 Dec 2001 22:34:21 -0800
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Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> writes:

> Anthony Atkielski (anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) wrote:
> 
> > Well, the "make clean" churned for a very long time and appeared to work okay,
> 
> I find it much quicker to `cd /usr/ports; rm -R */*/work` rather than
> recursively clean each port.

I'll bet few people do "make clean" twice.  Took several hours, IIRC.

The handbook now gives this alternative (suggested by someone here):

    find /usr/ports -depth -name work -exec rm -rf {} \;

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