From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 12:16: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C0F37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19F9043FCB for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1046895365.ac10e0@mired.org) Received: (qmail 72206 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2003 20:16:05 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 28 Feb 2003 20:16:05 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15967.50052.716845.629359@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:16:04 -0600 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Thanos Tsouanas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dist and /modules.old In-Reply-To: <20030228195536.GB86926@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030228011221.44087.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> <15967.37079.931304.796872@guru.mired.org> <20030228195536.GB86926@rot13.obsecurity.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030228195536.GB86926@rot13.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway typed: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:39:51AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > /dist is probably (<- means I'm not sure) leftover from the > > installation process. It may be used by /stand/sysinstall to mount > > things if you run that. > I don't think /dist is used by FreeBSD at all. It was probably > created by hand or by some other software installed on the system. No, it's used by /stand/sysinstall. It mounts the distribution cdrom on /dist when you go to install further distributions. It apparently creates it as needed - meaning there's no danger in deleting it. Now to put the 4.7 CDROMs away. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message