On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are the numbers in K? I suspect so. >
I forgot to put a size flag when I got the stats from du, so they're in the default amounts du returns. I think that's 512 bytes, so half kilobyte units. Half the numbers below would be in kilobytes. Sorry about that... I thought something seemed off when I was getting the results. > Is this for Chapter 5 or 6? > Chapter 6. I ran it against my host system backup which has a couple of extra things like which and gpm. I didn't bother doing it against chapter 5 after noticing how small of a difference there was between --strip-debug and more excessive stripping flags. > In any case, it seems the bottom line is that a user can save up to > 113M. For a 10G partition, that's about 1%. > > It seems that stripping would rarely provide significant improvements. > ~55-56M factoring my little error above. So yeah, the gain in space isn't terribly impressive. I always knew that the debugging symbols ate up most of the symbol space, but now I don't think I'll bother stripping unless I'm doing something with embedded, and even then it'll probably only be --strip-debug at most. Jonathan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
