On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:35:59PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hello,
> because of the "improved" translations and new translateable strings, > the root disk became too large. I have looked a bit at the file system of the root disk and I'm a wondering if the devices.tar.gz could not be moved to the modules.tgz or to a normal .deb package. If this is not possible there could be saved some bytes: core:~# cat devices.tar.gz |wc -c 47242 core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip|wc -c 47242 core:~# cat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|wc -c 27559 core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|wc -c 40158 core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|gzip -9|wc -c 24104 so it seems to me that tar don't use the -9 option the root-image is compresses with -9, so this could save space (I don't know how this looks like within extfs2's and in combination with other data) line 358: "tar zcf $devtarball dev" -> "tar c dev|gzip -9>$devtarball" BTW: is it possible to build boot-floppies without root? (a long time ago compiling boot-floppies killed my filesystem and my spare computer is really to slow) Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe/augustinus.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
