From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 12:05:44 2003 Return-Path: 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 1255416A4BF for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:05:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (adsl-65-64-145-209.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [65.64.145.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1453B43FDD for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 27064 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2003 19:05:29 -0000 Received: from user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net (HELO major.mygirlfriday.info) (65.41.216.204) by mongo.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 16 Sep 2003 19:05:29 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:05:39 -0500 From: Gary X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.00.6) Personal Organization: Hardly X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <5418420116.20030916140539@mygirlfriday.info> To: freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <00a601c37c84$9d3d1860$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <906762293.20030916105121@mygirlfriday.info> <003f01c37c6c$456bf100$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <958866990.20030916112625@mygirlfriday.info> <005a01c37c73$c1d21600$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <3012993764.20030916123512@mygirlfriday.info> <009d01c37c7e$64244d10$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <6315803624.20030916132202@mygirlfriday.info> <00a601c37c84$9d3d1860$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: linking a dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:05:44 -0000 Hello Mike, Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 1:59:11 PM, you wrote: >> FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003 >> root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC MM> If you "ls -l / | grep kernel", you'll notice that kernel and kernel.GENERIC MM> are identical in size. Yes, I see that on the grep... good info. MM> If you were to ever build a new kernel, your current would be moved to MM> kernel.old, so it's rather redundant to keep kernel.GENERIC around. I MM> guess this is pretty trivial now that you've tracked down the source MM> of disk usage, but hey, 4MB is 4MB. =) LOL, you got that right... thanks for your help and ideas.. as well as to everyone who pitched in... appreciate it. -- Best regards, Gary