Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:48:03 -0500 (EST) From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WHY EMPTY /dist /lkm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001041746490.7228-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <200001042231.XAA35280@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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/dist is created by sysinstall when it mounts a cdrom drive (or perhaps othermedia). I do not know if sysinstall is supposed to remove it upon exit or not but if nothing is mounted on it, it is safe to rmdir.=20 On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: >Joss Roots wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > I was wondering why there's an empty > > /dist and /lkm on my FreeBSD box > >I've never seen /dist. It doesn't belong to the FreeBSD base >system. I'd guess that you can safely remove it. > >/lkm is empty because LKMs are obsolete. They have been >replaced with the KLD system. KLDs are located in /modules. >If you don't need old LKMs for compatibility, you can safely >remove /lkm, too (or just let it stick around, it doesn't >hurt). > >Regards > Oliver > >--=20 >Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany >(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) > >"In jedem St=FCck Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" > (Terry Pratchett) > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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