From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 14:47:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD4415196 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:47:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10537 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:48:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:48:03 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WHY EMPTY /dist /lkm In-Reply-To: <200001042231.XAA35280@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /dist is created by sysinstall when it mounts a cdrom drive (or perhaps othermedia). I do not know if sysinstall is supposed to remove it upon exit or not but if nothing is mounted on it, it is safe to rmdir.=20 On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: >Joss Roots wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > I was wondering why there's an empty > > /dist and /lkm on my FreeBSD box > >I've never seen /dist. It doesn't belong to the FreeBSD base >system. I'd guess that you can safely remove it. > >/lkm is empty because LKMs are obsolete. They have been >replaced with the KLD system. KLDs are located in /modules. >If you don't need old LKMs for compatibility, you can safely >remove /lkm, too (or just let it stick around, it doesn't >hurt). > >Regards > Oliver > >--=20 >Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany >(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) > >"In jedem St=FCck Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" > (Terry Pratchett) > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message