Date: 10 Jul 2000 19:29:35 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dist ... what should be in there? Message-ID: <m2hf9x8kmo.fsf@reader.ptw.com> In-Reply-To: Ben Smithurst's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:52:45 %2B0100" References: <m2aefruv4i.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007091914430.2764-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> <20000710225245.F94380@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > Paul Herman wrote: > > > On 9 Jul 2000, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > >> Needed to trim down the "/" partition so started looking around for > >> stuff to get rid of or move. I see a directory /dist with nothing in > >> it. Should there be something in it? > > > > Nope it's a mount point. If you delete it, it will come back again > > when you use /stand/sysinstall to install packages via cdrom or nfs... > > And there's no point deleting it, you'll only save about 1K of disk > space... I guess it wasn't clear in my message... I *was* looking for things to delete but only mentioned /dist because it caught my attention from being empty... not as a possible candidate for deletion. When I noticed it was empty I was immediately gripped with the fear that I had inadvertantly deleted something terribly important there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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