Things to remove from /rescue

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jul 17 09:25:53 PDT 2003


In message <20030717080805.GA98878 at dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>This is a list of binaries that I don't feel should be part of /resuce as
>it's mission is to recover/rebuild a "broken" / [due to all the binaries
>being dynamic].  Is there justification for keeping them?

>- date, one can use a watch if they really want to know it is 5am and
>  their system is down.

And if people care to get correct times set on their files they would
set the clock how ?

>- swapon, this is not needed to fix a whacked out /lib.... unless we add
>  Emacs to /resuce.

swapon should stay, various programs which build filesystem trees
in memory can become quite hungry.

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