From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 21:37:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA01906 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 21:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.169]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA01900 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 21:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00396; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 21:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 21:37:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Sujal Patel cc: Jim Riffle , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large files in /stand In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Sujal Patel wrote: > On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote: > > > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 chmod > > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 chown > > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 802816 Nov 18 1995 cksum > > > > This is perfectly normal. /stand is really a gigantic hardlinked binary. > > If you want, you can just delete it if it annoys you. > > This isn't normal, to the right of "root" you'll see the link count. > Since the link count is 1, you are using 802k for EACH of these binaries > in /stand. You should have used tar, dump, or something else instead of > cp to move your root partitions. I stand corrected. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major