Retrieving hard disk space

Richard L. Pettit Jr. richp at locus.com
Thu Mar 21 01:45:07 AEST 1991


In article <11997 at uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> tony at uhcmtg.phys.hawaii.edu (Antonio Querubin) writes:
>some big files in /usr/lpp.save.
>
>Just how necessary is it to keep these files around, especially if

If you're asking the manual, don't delete them.  If you're asking me (one
who is running 1.2.1 in 140 *very precious* megabytes of disk space) anytime
I do an updatep, I cd /usr/lpp.save as root and /bin/rm -f [0-9]*/* to reclaim
space.  I just take the "there's no going back" approach.

Rich
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                  Richard Pettit         Locus Computing Corp.
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