From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 12:12:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17061 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA17056 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09458; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:08:56 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199610181908.MAA09458@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: Where to get into the Packages installation? To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:08:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: donny@ms1.hinet.net, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9610181116.AA18697@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> from "garyj@frt.dec.com" at Oct 18, 96 01:16:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that garyj@frt.dec.com said: > donny@ms1.hinet.net writes: > > > BTW, when I had a look at /stand, I found most of excatables > > there have the same length, around 900k. I guess it because > > of the filesystem limitation, but does it waste disk space? > > they're all static links to the same executable, so only inodes get used. > Once you have FBSD up and running you can just toss /stand, you shouldn't > need it any longer. Ouch! I don't know if I'd recommend *that*! If you trash your shared libraries (which I seem to have heard people complain of in the past on the lists), /stand can make things quite a bit easier to get going again -- *especially* if you trash /usr (which *holds* the shared libraries!). I think it's far easier to rebuild the filesystem and restore a backup (what's that you say? *no* backup available?? :>) using /stand than having to resort to a boot/fixit floppy... --don