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Date:      02 Dec 2001 22:34:21 -0800
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
Cc:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I find major consumers of disk space on the system?
Message-ID:  <x0adx0n76a.dx0@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20011202233428.A654@northernbrewer.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.43.0112022355440.46594-100000@surreal.nl> <016b01c17ba1$504b0750$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011202233428.A654@northernbrewer.com>

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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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