On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:28 PM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/10/2012 02:10 AM, Kshitij Jain wrote: > > Hi.... > > I am a student and working on building LFS as a project I have already > > build the Linux but i want to reduce the size of the system to minimum. > > Can u please suggest me ways to reduce the size of LFS. > > > > Your question is a bit ambiguous. The solution really depends on the > goal of the system. Take an embedded system for example. You would > likely want to use uClibC as suggested by Firerat, but busybox is > certainly a matter of taste. It may actually be more responsible to > build the few utilities you need linked statically and forgo the typical > environment completely. At an absolute minimum, you need only a kernel > and a statically linked binary to run as init (granted, it wouldn't be > very functional), but a kernel with no modules, a statically linked ash > or dash, and a supported file system (with static device nodes) do > equate to a functional (read-only) system. In fact, we used to use this > method many many moons ago for LFS itself. The first test reboot of LFS > had only sysvinit and bash statically linked, and that could have easily > been reduced to just bash if desired (either 'ln -s /bin/bash > /sbin/init' or init=/bin/bash in LILO). Yes, I had to review 1.0 (which > I never completed) to remember exactly how it was done. > http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/1.0/LFS-HOWTO-1.0-HTML/ > > Sir, I've already prepared the lfs system and it is working perfectly. I just want reduce the size of the whole system (so that it is easy to migrate) by deleting files and folders like /sources and /tools which is not useful anymore. Suggest me some files that i can remove.It may include help files and documentation files. Thank u Kshitij Jain.
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