From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 8:39:55 2003 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 0F62437B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:39:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1919143FB1 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1046882392.bb0c0d@mired.org) Received: (qmail 68583 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2003 16:39:52 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 28 Feb 2003 16:39:52 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15967.37079.931304.796872@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:39:51 -0600 To: Thanos Tsouanas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dist and /modules.old In-Reply-To: <20030228011221.44087.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030228011221.44087.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030228011221.44087.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com>, Thanos Tsouanas typed: > Hello everyone.. > Anyone knows why those two dirs ( /dist and /modules.old ) exist? /modules.old is created as part of the kernel installation process as a place to back up your old modules so you can recover from a failed kernel update. /dist is probably (<- means I'm not sure) leftover from the installation process. It may be used by /stand/sysinstall to mount things if you run that. > Is it safe enuff to rm 'em both? /modules.old will be recreated as needed. /dist may not, but should only cause problems with sysinstall not being able to mount a distribution. If you never use sysinstall, it won't be a problem. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message