On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 06:27:33PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>
> Found the offender: /var/log/lastlog (19 MB in size). Unfortunately, it gets
> re-created every time I rebuild the livecd image. Why?
>
> As a temporary workaround, I now explicitly truncate it to zero size in the
> "prepiso" target. Any better solution is welcome.
While you are at it, as a matter of general cleanliness, you might want
to truncate /var/log/{wtmp,btmp} and /root/.bash_history, too. I noticed
history in the last iso I downloaded.
> The next biggest waste (~2 MB) is legacy BSD PTYs and the corresponding udev
> database entries. Is it OK to configure legacy BSD PTYs out of the kernel?
I have not configured legacy PTY's since I started using 2.6. This
should be just fine. With that, you shouldn't have to touch the udev
stuff since it won't try to create the devices.
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