Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

Igor Pokrovsky igor.pokrovsky at cnrm.meteo.fr
Wed Aug 27 02:19:25 PDT 2003


On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:02:16PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:53:38AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> >On 2003-08-26, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> >> 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.  
> >
> >And it would also remove things like find and xargs and all the
> >other system binaries -- their atime does not get changed when
> >they are executed.  Check your facts before giving this kind of
> >advice.
> 
> Not to mention /kernel and the contents of /boot since the bootloader
> doesn't update atime either.  The result may be more minimalist than
> Tyler intends.

No, I guess /kernel won't be removed because of schg :-)

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