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
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
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
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
Or try and figure out a way to get UPX to work on *BSD
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Subject: Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?
If you had checked