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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:56:02 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removal of /stand Directory
Message-ID:  <417DF502.4010807@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041023130921.I78665@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
References:  <4171F702.9020405@gamersimpact.com> <417A6C6B.6010109@gamersimpact.com> <20041023130921.I78665@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>

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Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote:
>> -  Move gzip to /bin and use /bin/gzip and /bin/pax to handle 
>> compressed archives (see arch@ thread for patch). Overall is a savings 
>> in /.
> 
> Frankly, having a file pointing to an inode with 135 links in /bin sort 
> of scares me. Putting a stand-alone version of gzip in /bin isn't going 
> to save any space in /.

Ryan is proposing moving /usr/bin/gzip to /bin/gzip.
/usr/bin/gzip only has 4 links: gzip, gunzip, gzcat, and zcat.

I think you're confusing this with /rescue/gzip, which is a very
different thing, indeed.

Cheers,

Tim



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