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From: richp@locus.com (Richard L. Pettit Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Retrieving hard disk space
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.154507.1002569@locus.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 15:45:07 GMT
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In article <11997@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> tony@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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