linking a dir

Gary gv-list-freebsdquestions at mygirlfriday.info
Tue Sep 16 12:05:44 PDT 2003


Hello Mike,

Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 1:59:11 PM, you wrote:

>> FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003
>> root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

MM> If you "ls -l / | grep kernel", you'll notice that kernel and kernel.GENERIC
MM> are identical in size.

Yes, I see that on the grep... good info.

MM> If you were to ever build a new kernel, your current would be moved to
MM> kernel.old, so it's rather redundant to keep kernel.GENERIC around. I
MM> guess this is pretty trivial now that you've tracked down the source
MM> of disk usage, but hey, 4MB is 4MB. =)

LOL, you got that right... thanks for your help and ideas.. as well as to
everyone who pitched in... appreciate it.


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Best regards,
 Gary 



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