Re: /dist and /modules.old
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thanos Tsouanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Hello everyone.. Anyone knows why those two dirs ( /dist and /modules.old ) exist? /modules.old is created as part of the kernel installation process as a place to back up your old modules so you can recover from a failed kernel update. /dist is probably (- means I'm not sure) leftover from the installation process. It may be used by /stand/sysinstall to mount things if you run that. Is it safe enuff to rm 'em both? /modules.old will be recreated as needed. /dist may not, but should only cause problems with sysinstall not being able to mount a distribution. If you never use sysinstall, it won't be a problem. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /dist and /modules.old
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:39:51AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: /dist is probably (- means I'm not sure) leftover from the installation process. It may be used by /stand/sysinstall to mount things if you run that. I don't think /dist is used by FreeBSD at all. It was probably created by hand or by some other software installed on the system. /modules.old will be recreated as needed. /dist may not, but should only cause problems with sysinstall not being able to mount a distribution. If you never use sysinstall, it won't be a problem. Given the above, it should not affect sysinstall or anything else in FreeBSD. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /dist and /modules.old
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:39:51AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: /dist is probably (- means I'm not sure) leftover from the installation process. It may be used by /stand/sysinstall to mount things if you run that. I don't think /dist is used by FreeBSD at all. It was probably created by hand or by some other software installed on the system. No, it's used by /stand/sysinstall. It mounts the distribution cdrom on /dist when you go to install further distributions. It apparently creates it as needed - meaning there's no danger in deleting it. Now to put the 4.7 CDROMs away. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
