Or try and figure out a way to get UPX to work on *BSD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 5:20 AM Subject: Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?
> If you had checked the link count you would have seen that the binaries > you mentioned are actually not installed multiple times, but are "hard > linked" under multiple names, and therefore only take up the space of a > single instance of the file. If these binary files are located on the > same filesystem it is preferable to hardlink rather than symlink them. > I'm not sure if you noticed, but deleting a file with a link count > greater than one will not free up any space, so deleting them is > fruitless unless to plan to delete all of the references. > > If you want something really small, check out the picobsd project on the > freebsd website. > > Seeya...Q > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 18:52, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I had been going through /usr/bin to see what I would need for a very > > small installation and noticed that there are binaries > > installed multiple times with different names of course. > > > > My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? From those > > that I had not deleted I remember the following duplicates that most > > likely are not all of those exist... > > > > Mail -> mail > > Mail -> mailx > > less -> more > > awk -> nawk > > nvi -> nview > > cksum -> sum > > reset -> tset > > nvi -> vi > > nvi -> view > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
