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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