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Subject: Re: Things to delete in /stand
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Studded wrote:
> 
you can delete all of /stand
it's just a useful thing to have around for emergencies.
But deleting SOME of the files won't gain you much..
they're all links to the same binary.
it won't get freed till the last link is deleted.
(well, ok maybe there are 2 binaries)

>         I have a test/play system that's cramped for HD space till I can
> scrape together some cash.  Looking around for things to delete, I came
> across some stuff in /stand that I'll never (yeah, I know that's a bad
> word, but I have other systems available to me in a crunch :) use, so I
> thought I'd nuke them.  However, I remember vaguely reading something
> about all or most of the stuff in /stand being the same binary, so I don't
> want to break anything.
> 
>         The candidates for deletion are; bad144, ft and ppp.  The other
> one I want to delete is boot_crunch if someone tells me what it is, and
> possibly sh, unless someone explains to me why we need one in /stand and
> one in /bin.  I'm guessing it's something to do with booting in single
> user mode?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Doug
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