Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:17:00 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue Message-ID: <20030717091700.B2145@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20030717160942.GB46923@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:09:42AM -0700 References: <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05210671bb3c1bf6b8fd@[128.113.24.47]> <20030717033620.B51802@xorpc.icir.org> <200307170906.51902.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030717160942.GB46923@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:09:42AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: ... > > I think this is an excellent point. David, can you provide actual numbers > > of how much removing each of these programs saves? > > Then hell, lets just totally duplicate all of /[s]bin into /rescue. > Remember this is BSD, this is Unix. This isn't every other gargantuan > OS. Before you call me facious, seriously ask yourself what is the > purpose of /rescue. whatever it is, certainly the purpose is not to show how good a sysadmin is in using a knife's blade as a screwdriver and a fork and a spoon. Heck, even swiss army knives have these extra tools. I think that if something in /rescue can make the task faster and less error prone, removing it to save 10-50k of disk space would be a big mistake. cheers luigi
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