Re: When I'm all done..
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:53 PM Subject: Re: When I'm all done.. Mark wrote: For a small 'emergency' disk, I'd like to remove those directories, after the 4.9R install has fully completed. Can it be safely done? Or is anything needed, at runtime, from those directories? You have a couple of options for creating small emergency disks: 1] The Live CD is precisely for that - booting from in an emergency. 2] See the following entries on my blog for links to small distros: Thanks. I use the emergency disk for calamities, such as require a root-partition restore. Having a handy live-CD to do that would not hurt either. :) Whenever I boot from the install CD's, they always seem to use my existing partitions (which makes a root-partition restore impossible). - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When I'm all done..
Mark wrote: For a small 'emergency' disk, I'd like to remove those directories, after the 4.9R install has fully completed. Can it be safely done? Or is anything needed, at runtime, from those directories? You have a couple of options for creating small emergency disks: 1] The Live CD is precisely for that - booting from in an emergency. 2] See the following entries on my blog for links to small distros: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/37.html http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/28.html And PicoBSD, a 3.0 FreeBSD that can be put on a single floppy! http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/43.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When I'm all done..
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:17:54PM +, Mark wrote: ... Is it then possible to delete the following directories? /usr/src/ And /usr/obj/ And perhaps even, /usr/ports/ For a small 'emergency' disk, I'd like to remove those directories, after the 4.9R install has fully completed. Can it be safely done? Or is anything needed, at runtime, from those directories? No -- those directories are only needed when you're rebuilding the system or installing stuff from ports. You can zap /usr/sup as well, although it's probably empty unless you've used cvsup on that box. You can probably live without /usr/doc, and you only need /usr/include if you're going to be compiling stuff. There's also quite a lot of stuff under /usr/share that you can probably live without, although you need to be a little more discriminating there. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
