On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Robert T Wyatt wrote:
> Ken Mankoff wrote:
>> So 'cleanup' won't remove large amount of source and deb files
>> taking up space. Is there another 'offical' command to do this?
>>
>> Or is it safe and reasonable to do the following. Disk space is
>> worth more than bandwidth to me.
>>
>> rm /sw/src/*
>> find /sw/fink/10.5/ -name "*.deb" -exec rm {} \;
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -k.
>
>
> ... by this point fink has been crippled (in the second step where
> its binary was removed) so why not just remove it all with:
>
> sudo rm -r /sw
>
> ... that should free up quite a bit of disk space....
>
Wow, thanks. This is helpful. And I guess I could "sudo rm -fR /" to
clear up even more, right? I'll try that and post back shortly with
my res
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