Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:46:52 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is /entrophy ? Message-ID: <20050202124652.GC64979@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <ef60af090502020352556db801@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af090502020352556db801@mail.gmail.com>
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--zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:52:52PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > what is /entrophy ? can i delete it ?=20 It is used to store entropy to reseed the random number generator at boot time. If it really is in your way there, then you can put it elsewhere by=20 setting entropy_file in /etc/rc.conf. > also can i delete /python.core ? Yes. It is the remnants of a crashed python process. If you're not interested in debugging it, you may as well get rid. > what about /COPYRIGHT :P Why bother? It's only using one inode, and occupies very little disk space. But if it offends, then sure, remove it. It'll come back when you upgrade anyway. > you just had to put it in the / dont you :) whats wrong with /tmp :P They're not "temporary" files. /tmp is for storing session data, etc, that will not be required after reboot. The whole point of the entropy file is to store entropy across a reboot. COPYRIGHT should be somewhere easy to find - where's easier to find than /? And /usr/compat is where the compatibility layers live. If you use any ports that depend on Linux, then they will want this stuff intact. If you don't use any ports that expect to be run on Linux, it'll probably=20 be empty. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCAMu8hvzwOpChvo8RAkWOAKDe5RS7UtZT/FTWyBcXwdAOVOmW+QCgmhBt 7mia+umQZedCAn0ujdDigSQ= =JVfm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf--
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