Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 11:41:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <arch@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fw: /rescue Message-ID: <20030508184147.GA56336@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200305081717.h48HHPTl020707@harmony.village.org> References: <20030508165630.GA55207@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030508.094206.68986125.imp@bsdimp.com> <200305081717.h48HHPTl020707@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:17:25AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > : It was also felt this patch puts way too much into /stand -- like vi > : (rather than edit) and dhclient for instance. /stand should be just > : enough to recover a system by a *skilled* person. > > I disagree. I think it keeps a good amount of stuff in there. Sure, > I can do an echo * rather than an ls, but the binary is so small and You're going to an extreme -- I didn't mention ls, I mentioned nvi (about 1MB static). > disk space so cheap it makes no sense to have to force it so that only Don't forget we aren't talking about the size of the *entire* disk, the size of / is the issue (especially for source upgrades from 4.x) . Maybe I should change sysinstall to use a 2GB / and have it include /usr -- that certainly makes things easier for a dynamic /.
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