From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 13:46:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5775F16A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.aueb.gr (hermes.aueb.gr [195.251.255.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F105343FAF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dds@aueb.gr) Received: from aueb.gr (ugrads03.wrong.dialup.aueb.gr [195.251.251.197]) by hermes.aueb.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7QKkp6T001982; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:46:53 +0300 Message-ID: <3F4BAF61.A2D681B0@aueb.gr> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:05:05 +0300 From: Diomidis Spinellis Organization: Athens University of Ecomomics and Business X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el,de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tyler Kellen References: <000001c36bef$da8d1260$a700000a@TYBOX> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:46:59 -0000 Tyler Kellen wrote: > The information I'm looking to aquire is the absolute minimum files > required to boot FreeBSD 4.8 into multi-user mode. If this involves > deleting a massive amount of directories and files, or setting up a > new drive and copying only the needed files, I think I can make it work. You can use the system the way you intent to for two weeks, and then run find / -atime +2w -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f This command will delete all files that have not been accessed within the last two weeks. Diomidis - http://www.spinellis.gr