Re: [boost] Help - my disk is full! (of bin.v2 stuff)

Subject: Re: [boost] Help - my disk is full! (of bin.v2 stuff)
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-21 21:32:17

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 6:26 PM Paul A. Bristow via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> I note with surprise (and alarm) that my Boost-stuff disk partition is nearly full!
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> Closer inspection reveals that I have a bin.v2 folder of over 50 GB.
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> Obviously, I need to delete something.
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> What are the implications of deleting things?
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> What is the best option?
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> Should I simply delete the whole folder bin.v2 (I have, in desperation, gone nuclear some time ago)
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> or just bin/v2/libs
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> or ?
>
> Expert advice welcome.

Deleting bin.v2 is ok, but I usually delete bin.v2/libs as this is
where the actual build artifacts are stored. The rest is the cached
stuff that doesn't take much space and which typically there's no
reason to re-generate.