recovering lost disk space during bitbaking

[Rodrigo Vivi]

Maybe rm_work.bbclass will save you some disk space...

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Ricardo Salveti
<ricardo.salveti at openbossa.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Devendra Singh Rawat
> <devendra.rawat at dbups.co.in> wrote:
>> I am using Openembedded for developing Angstrom linux for my AT91SAM9263EK
>> board powered by Atmel AT91SAM9263 ARM926 core processor.
>>
>> The thing is that it takes a lot of disk space for building the packages on
>> my PC
>> example, my home folder was having 2.5 GB free space, I tried to build
>> konqueror-embedded for my board using bitbake but after running for about 35
>> minutes the build failed and nothing was build.
>> Now there is only 1.8 GB free space on my disk.
>> I dont know how to recover that lost space.
>>
>> How should I recover that lost space and clean up all the mess(temp.
>> obj files,scripts etc) that is created during the build process.
>
> You can remove most files by giving 'bitbake -c clean <package>'. But
> notice that it'll not remove everything, like the package itself and
> the files at the staging directory.
>
> But I guess that most of the space it used while building will be
> removed (the work dir of the package).
>
> Regards,
> --
> Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
>
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