Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:09:20 +0200 (MEST) From: Lutz Kittler <Lutz.Kittler@sse-erfurt.de> To: "Erik Funkenbusch" <erikf@visi.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: size of /sbin/reboot Message-ID: <15632.15408.342031.436377@master.sse-erfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <007d01c21765$4fe5ef40$d28e1bd8@LW100ERIK> References: <007d01c21765$4fe5ef40$d28e1bd8@LW100ERIK>
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Erik Funkenbusch writes:
> I confess that I was taken a bit by surpise when I was digging
> around in my sbin directory and noticed that /sbin/reboot is
> around 230k in size. 230k? For a reboot command?
> A quick check of /usr/src/sbin/reboot shows that
> reboot.c is only 6k in size. Add to this that the file is copied
> to several other locations (ie, halt, fasthalt, etc..) and it's
> taking up a good chunk of disk space for what should be such a
> simple command.
>
> Anyone care to explain why the file is so large, and why it's
> copied rather than symlinked?
>
Hi,
as you can see these files are hardlinked :
Makefile:
LINKS= ${BINDIR}/reboot ${BINDIR}/halt \
${BINDIR}/reboot ${BINDIR}/fastboot \
${BINDIR}/reboot ${BINDIR}/fasthalt
/sbin# ls -li | grep 1238
1238 -r-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 227212 29 Mai 08:11 fastboot
1238 -r-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 227212 29 Mai 08:11 fasthalt
1238 -r-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 227212 29 Mai 08:11 halt
1238 -r-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 227212 29 Mai 08:11 reboot
Size results from static linking.
Lutz
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