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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:33:08 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail23@bzerk.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Seamus Abshere <sabshere@Princeton.EDU>
Subject:   Re: .ko files in /boot/kernel
Message-ID:  <20030903073308.GA34833@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F55680A.2070007@princeton.edu>
References:  <3F55680A.2070007@princeton.edu>

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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:03:22AM -0400, Seamus Abshere typed:
> /boot/kernel is full of .ko files for kernel options that I did not
> select. Why are they there? Are they in use?
 
You can check which modules are loaded with kldstat(8)

> [/boot/kernel]#ls -l kernel
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2317346 Jul  2 16:11 kernel
> 
> I'm proud of this (supposedly) 2.3MB kernel, and I want to
> make sure that I have actually optimized my machine and not made a
> stupid mistake that does the opposite.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Seamus
> 
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