From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 17:53:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A422116A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E0B143FAF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb@gbch.net) Received: (qmail 46315 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Aug 2003 10:53:39 +1000 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:53:38 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Diomidis Spinellis References: <000001c36bef$da8d1260$a700000a@TYBOX> <3F4BAF61.A2D681B0@aueb.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F4BAF61.A2D681B0@aueb.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i; gjb-muttsend.sh 1.4 2003-04-23 X-Uptime: 3 days X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-Request-PGP: http://www.gbch.net/keys/4B04B7D6.asc cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Tyler Kellen Subject: Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:53:43 -0000 On 2003-08-26, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > Tyler Kellen wrote: > > The information I'm looking to aquire is the absolute minimum files > > required to boot FreeBSD 4.8 into multi-user mode. If this involves > > deleting a massive amount of directories and files, or setting up a > > new drive and copying only the needed files, I think I can make it work. > > You can use the system the way you intent to for two weeks, and then run > > find / -atime +2w -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f > > This command will delete all files that have not been accessed within > the last two weeks. And it would also remove things like find and xargs and all the other system binaries -- their atime does not get changed when they are executed. Check your facts before giving this kind of advice. -- Greg Black GPG signed mail preferred; further information in headers.