Faux_Pseudo <Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL> wrote:
>_.-In alt.os.linux.slackware, Old Man wrote the following -._
>> make mrproper will clean up the source tree.
>
>And remove your .config. So if ye want to keep that move to someplace
>safe befor running make mrproper and then move it back.

Besides, what point is there in running mrproper to rid the disk
of files that are going to be exactly recreated? Other than
perhaps a few modules being added or deleted from the list of
what gets made, it's virtually the same every time. Hence if
there isn't enough room on the disk, cleaning out files in the
kernel source tree is not going to provide extra space for doing
kernel compiles. That space will have to come from somewhere
else. Of course, when all is said and done, saving just the
gzipped tar file and the config is all that is needed, so the
rest can be deleted to provide space for something else.

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