On 04/11/12 12:26, Kshitij Jain wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:28 PM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
If you don't care about having documentation of the installed software
around on your LFS-system, you can remove it:
/usr/share/doc/* and /usr/share/man/*
Groet,
Thomas
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