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barlad
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 7:29 pm    Post subject: The .keep files ? Reply with quote
In every directory of my / partitions, there is a ".keep" file. I have no idea what it is. I keep deleting them but... they keep reappearing.
Anyone knows what it is for please?
Those files have no size, nothing is in it. That is not really a problem, I just hate having files I don't know what they are here for :).
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
AFAIK it's something related to portage, maybe to avoid it removing dirs.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Removing .keep files is not recommended... Portage autocleans 'empty' directories unless they have .keep files inside.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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