Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 22:32:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jim Riffle <jriffle@ns.kconline.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: large files in /stand Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960901223004.227P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960901210024.16112A-100000@ns.kconline.com>
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On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Jim Riffle wrote: > One day I decided to copy my / partition onto a different drive. > Amazingly enough, cp worked and everything seemed to function okay after > rebooting. I also did a "make world" to fix any problems this may have > created for me. Ugh. Use tar, dump, or cp -R to make sure the permissions are copied properly. Since you make worlded, you sort of nullified your coping anyway, so you'll live :-) > > There is no real problem except for the files in my /stand directory are > huge. A ls -l in /stand gives results like this: > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 chmod > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 chown > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 cksum This is perfectly normal. /stand is really a gigantic hardlinked binary. If you want, you can just delete it if it annoys you. > And a du /stand gives this: > > 204 /stand/help > 13 /stand/etc > 2 /stand/info/proflibs > 5 /stand/info/des > 2 /stand/info/games > 2 /stand/info/manpages > 3 /stand/info/bin > 2 /stand/info/dict > 2 /stand/info/info > 18 /stand/info/src > 37 /stand/info > 43884 /stand > > This isn't a real problem, but I sure could use those extra 40 megs it has > claimed. No, it's more like a meg or so. It's counting each binary as 802k, which they aren't. > What I was woundering was, what would happen if I were just to delete > those files in /stand? Or, could I delete them and then link then back to > the appropriate files with ln? I guess, I really just do not know what > signifiance these files in /stand have, and wanted to make sure I don't > try to do anything which could bring my system down. /stand is a default set of binaries, handy if your /bin directory gets blown up. But you don't necessarily need it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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