recovering lost disk space during bitbaking

[Ricardo Salveti]

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