From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 19:13:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04737 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 19:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.kconline.com (ns.kconline.com [207.51.167.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA04731 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 19:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jriffle@localhost) by ns.kconline.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA16185 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:09:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:09:06 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Riffle To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: large files in /stand Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk One day I decided to copy my / partition onto a different drive. Amazingly enough, cp worked and everything seemed to function okay after rebooting. I also did a "make world" to fix any problems this may have created for me. There is no real problem except for the files in my /stand directory are huge. A ls -l in /stand gives results like this: -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 And a du /stand gives this: 204 /stand/help 13 /stand/etc 2 /stand/info/proflibs 5 /stand/info/des 2 /stand/info/games 2 /stand/info/manpages 3 /stand/info/bin 2 /stand/info/dict 2 /stand/info/info 18 /stand/info/src 37 /stand/info 43884 /stand This isn't a real problem, but I sure could use those extra 40 megs it has claimed. What I was woundering was, what would happen if I were just to delete those files in /stand? Or, could I delete them and then link then back to the appropriate files with ln? I guess, I really just do not know what signifiance these files in /stand have, and wanted to make sure I don't try to do anything which could bring my system down. Thanks! Jim Riffle