Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:26:43 -0500 From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: "perryh@pluto.rain.com" <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: How customized can an mfsroot be? Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B78805B@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> In-Reply-To: <4bbd8cf5.kM98GPFbc40Ckgzy%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <x2uade45ae91004051730j87d11987j47b3b945971c85d6@mail.gmail.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <m2gade45ae91004051744pa4d4d86ax6a1e1f38195dc6a7@mail.gmail.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FDD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8066@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84AD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <4BBC32A4.1080906@infracaninophile.co.uk> <r2j2daa8b4e1004070541v5b617713kddd6a23e4b83c1a9@mail.gmail.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8720@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <4bbd8cf5.kM98GPFbc40Ckgzy%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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>You might be able to reduce the iso size some by making a tarball of /var = (using tar -y or tar -z) instead of keeping /var2 as a tree. >Granted you would then need to have tar(1) in the iso, which may cancel ou= t much of the savings if you would not otherwise have needed it. Actually, /var is tiny compared to everything else we have in the image so = converting it to a tarball wouldn't really have any impact...
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