Re: [Gumstix-users] Usefull web page for newbies !

[Bob C. <bco...@ve...>]

On 01/10/2011 11:01 PM, Alex Gibson wrote:
> On 11/01/2011 2:41 PM, Bob Cochran wrote:
>>> cd /home/alxx/overo-oe/
>>> rm -rf /tmp
>> That deletes the contents of /tmp, not ~/overo-oe/tmp
>>
>> Did you mean
>>
>> rm -rf tmp
>>
> doh
>
> yes.

Bill, I suggest being very cautious about deleting tmp because the 
images you have built to date are in 
tmp/deploy/glibc/glibc/images/overo. You could back up those images 
somewhere. I don't have enough experience with OpenEmbedded and BitBake 
to judge the real effect of deleting all of tmp in order to save space 
on a backup.

If my living depended on it, I would be doing weekly clones of my OS and 
build environment to external hard drives and separate incremental 
backups daily. But my living doesn't depend on OpenEmbedded, so I don't 
do any backups for myself. I'm just tinkering for the moment. I am, 
however, seriously thinking of getting a 2 Tb hard drive so I can do 
oodles of builds and thereby experiment with my Gumstix hardware.

Only you can decide how important a backup is to you. If you want to 
back up, then by all means do so.

Bob