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Maven, Hudson and Windows Default User Gives Disk Space Issues

When you deploy Hudson to Apache Tomcat and run Tomcat as default user maven sets the repository to be ~/.m2/repository (which is normally C:\Documents and Settings\Default User.m2/repository).  Unfortunately windows will also copy that directory every time a new user logs on to that box.  So in our case we ended up with 2GB of repeated repository.
Solution
Change your maven ‘settings.xml’ in {maven install dir}/conf Uncomment the line “/path/to/local/repo” in the settings tag and change it to be ~/../.m2/repository so every one shares the same maven repository.