Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:08:56 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Cc: donny@ms1.hinet.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Where to get into the Packages installation? Message-ID: <199610181908.MAA09458@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <9610181116.AA18697@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> from "garyj@frt.dec.com" at Oct 18, 96 01:16:34 pm
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It seems that garyj@frt.dec.com said: > donny@ms1.hinet.net writes: > > > BTW, when I had a look at /stand, I found most of excatables > > there have the same length, around 900k. I guess it because > > of the filesystem limitation, but does it waste disk space? > > they're all static links to the same executable, so only inodes get used. > Once you have FBSD up and running you can just toss /stand, you shouldn't > need it any longer. Ouch! I don't know if I'd recommend *that*! If you trash your shared libraries (which I seem to have heard people complain of in the past on the lists), /stand can make things quite a bit easier to get going again -- *especially* if you trash /usr (which *holds* the shared libraries!). I think it's far easier to rebuild the filesystem and restore a backup (what's that you say? *no* backup available?? :>) using /stand than having to resort to a boot/fixit floppy... --don
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