Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

[Diomidis Spinellis]

Tyler Kellen wrote:
> The information I'm looking to aquire is the absolute minimum files
> required to boot FreeBSD 4.8 into multi-user mode. If this involves
> deleting a massive amount of directories and files, or setting up a
> new drive and copying only the needed files, I think I can make it work.

You can use the system the way you intent to for two weeks, and then run

find / -atime +2w -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

This command will delete all files that have not been accessed within
the last two weeks.  

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