From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 17:26:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25083106566C for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:26:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505c.appriver.com [98.129.35.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FF28FC12 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:26:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.14 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht01.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: G179 G180 G181 G182 G186 G187 G198 G285 X-Note: Encrypt Rule Hits: X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.14] (HELO ht01.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 35879779; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:26:52 -0500 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.132]) by ht01.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.14]) with mapi; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:26:47 -0500 From: Peter Steele To: "perryh@pluto.rain.com" Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:26:43 -0500 Thread-Topic: How customized can an mfsroot be? Thread-Index: AcrW8xsq5DqlYtpEQZORfg0Y3rzS/wATWDUg Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B78805B@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7D05@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FAD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F7FDD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8066@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F84AD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <4BBC32A4.1080906@infracaninophile.co.uk> <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B6F8720@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> <4bbd8cf5.kM98GPFbc40Ckgzy%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4bbd8cf5.kM98GPFbc40Ckgzy%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-cr-hashedpuzzle: Abnh BUrJ E4j4 GRDZ Hnqy I0GX I1X3 KSOy NZQy NjS3 PuYq Rodi SuYc Uhm9 VHzu Vf8j; 2; ZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAtAHEAdQBlAHMAdABpAG8AbgBzAEAAZgByAGUAZQBiAHMAZAAuAG8AcgBnADsAcABlAHIAcgB5AGgAQABwAGwAdQB0AG8ALgByAGEAaQBuAC4AYwBvAG0A; Sosha1_v1; 7; {1C2AB8ED-55E9-4152-A1AA-52AFE1F34EBD}; cABzAHQAZQBlAGwAZQBAAG0AYQB4AGkAcwBjAGEAbABlAC4AYwBvAG0A; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:26:43 GMT; UgBFADoAIABIAG8AdwAgAGMAdQBzAHQAbwBtAGkAegBlAGQAIABjAGEAbgAgAGEAbgAgAG0AZgBzAHIAbwBvAHQAIABiAGUAPwA= x-cr-puzzleid: {1C2AB8ED-55E9-4152-A1AA-52AFE1F34EBD} acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: How customized can an mfsroot be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:26:49 -0000 >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...