From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 19:29:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 594CC37BA15 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 20550 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2000 02:29:49 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 11 Jul 2000 02:29:49 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA16334; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:29:35 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dist ... what should be in there? References: <20000710225245.F94380@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> From: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Ben Smithurst's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:52:45 +0100" Date: 10 Jul 2000 19:29:35 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst writes: > Paul Herman wrote: > > > On 9 Jul 2000, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > 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... I guess it wasn't clear in my message... I *was* looking for things to delete but only mentioned /dist because it caught my attention from being empty... not as a possible candidate for deletion. When I noticed it was empty I was immediately gripped with the fear that I had inadvertantly deleted something terribly important there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message