Re: To free disk space

[Isaac Isao Saito <130s%lateeye.net@localhost>]

Manuel and John, removing `work` dirs worked pretty well. Now that
I've retrieved back 80%.

To be complete, 2.5GB is still somewhere. Where are they?

# I'm afraid I'm not even sure if this pkgsrc or general building question..

Isaac

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:39 PM, John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Jul 11,  4:36pm, Isaac Isao Saito wrote:
> }
> } continued from my previous question [0], I want to free disk space so
> } much of which is occupied by many packaged installed via pkgsrc by
> } mistake recently. After this mistake the disk usage doubled to 16GB.
> }
> } Simply, how can I do so?
> }
> } Unistalling many packages by pkg_delete doesn't seem to help. `df`
> } returns nearly the same disk usage before & after.
> }
> } Manual [1] says `make clean` / `make clean-depends` would remove
> } compiled files in `work`, but the following doesn't work for me:
> }
> }     # cd /usr/share/pkgsrc/devel    (where I ran `bmake` by mistake)
> }     # make clean
> }     Makefile:1657: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> }     # make clean-depends
> }     Makefile:1657: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> }
> } Removing `work` in each directory one-by-one under `devel` might work,
> } but it's too tedious and I want to save it as my last resort.
> }
> } Any idea? Thank you very much.
>
>      "cd /usr/share/pkgsrc/devel && rm */work" or
>
>      "cd /usr/share/pkgsrc && rm */*/work"
>
> }-- End of excerpt from Isaac Isao Saito