binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?
Hi, I had been going through /usr/bin to see what I would need for a very small installation and noticed that there are binaries installed multiple times with different names of course. My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? From those that I had not deleted I remember the following duplicates that most likely are not all of those exist... Mail - mail Mail - mailx less - more awk - nawk nvi - nview cksum - sum reset - tset nvi - vi nvi - view -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?
If you had checked the link count you would have seen that the binaries you mentioned are actually not installed multiple times, but are hard linked under multiple names, and therefore only take up the space of a single instance of the file. If these binary files are located on the same filesystem it is preferable to hardlink rather than symlink them. I'm not sure if you noticed, but deleting a file with a link count greater than one will not free up any space, so deleting them is fruitless unless to plan to delete all of the references. If you want something really small, check out the picobsd project on the freebsd website. Seeya...Q On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 18:52, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi, I had been going through /usr/bin to see what I would need for a very small installation and noticed that there are binaries installed multiple times with different names of course. My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? From those that I had not deleted I remember the following duplicates that most likely are not all of those exist... Mail - mail Mail - mailx less - more awk - nawk nvi - nview cksum - sum reset - tset nvi - vi nvi - view ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:52:59AM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? All of the programs you list are actually hardlinks to one another. If you run ls -li on them, you will see that they have the same inode number, and are consequently the same file. nvi - nview nvi - vi nvi - view You can add ex and nex to this list too. David. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, David Malone wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 08:52:59AM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? All of the programs you list are actually hardlinks to one another. *aarrrggg* should have had another look at it this morning after some minutes of sleep. If you run ls -li on them, you will see that they have the same inode number, and are consequently the same file. yes. of course. I should recheck the way I had copied them into my image. Must have used cp -p this night instead of tar -cpf - | tar -xpf - -C ... or s.th. like this. That's most likely the problem I hadn't seen a link count 1 because I didn't look at the original installation: noc:~/install-20031018/usr/bin# ls -i ex nex nvi nview vi view 47625 ex 47625 nex 47625 nvi 47625 nview 47625 vi 47625 view but noc:/mnt/usr/bin# ls -i ex nex nvi nview vi view 346 ex 246 nex 240 nvi 239 nview 114 vi 113 view many thanks for all the answers. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/ tech support excuse #226: Fatal error right in front of screen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?
Or try and figure out a way to get UPX to work on *BSD - Original Message - From: Q [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bjoern A. Zeeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 5:20 AM Subject: Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ? If you had checked the link count you would have seen that the binaries you mentioned are actually not installed multiple times, but are hard linked under multiple names, and therefore only take up the space of a single instance of the file. If these binary files are located on the same filesystem it is preferable to hardlink rather than symlink them. I'm not sure if you noticed, but deleting a file with a link count greater than one will not free up any space, so deleting them is fruitless unless to plan to delete all of the references. If you want something really small, check out the picobsd project on the freebsd website. Seeya...Q On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 18:52, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi, I had been going through /usr/bin to see what I would need for a very small installation and noticed that there are binaries installed multiple times with different names of course. My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? From those that I had not deleted I remember the following duplicates that most likely are not all of those exist... Mail - mail Mail - mailx less - more awk - nawk nvi - nview cksum - sum reset - tset nvi - vi nvi - view ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
