From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 15:24:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1466137B992 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13BlTp-000MO9-00; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:52:45 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13BlTp-0007VP-00; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:52:45 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:52:45 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Paul Herman Cc: Harry Putnam , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dist ... what should be in there? Message-ID: <20000710225245.F94380@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="m1UC1K4AOz1Ywdkx" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --m1UC1K4AOz1Ywdkx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paul Herman wrote: > On 9 Jul 2000, Harry Putnam wrote: >=20 >> Needed to trim down the "/" partition so started looking around for >> stuff to get rid of or move. I see a directory /dist with nothing in >> it. Should there be something in it? >=20 > Nope it's a mount point. If you delete it, it will come back again > when you use /stand/sysinstall to install packages via cdrom or nfs... And there's no point deleting it, you'll only save about 1K of disk space... --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D --m1UC1K4AOz1Ywdkx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: pBKyihKQOb4mSPsJ8tncFShgtW1CadvE iQCVAwUBOWpFrCsPVtiZOS99AQFqawP/S2YqqYRiJh1IBhiDM2yCznf6vx/qCLPS xS2IwKSwT4WZ4Qxc65uvU47sWONzmllSxse7pVRQ0fEP/zCpWX+Fw6nz25IBfySH hl8kEws5U+oykdiFnO7gO30IWLu0wTONZvzzoxL0ANXZsbxN694eRdZoL9EZNLP5 6y/cZWzpNjc= =V2Tn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m1UC1K4AOz1Ywdkx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message