Re: customizing disk: free sectors problem

You need to learn how hard links work.  Consider:

ls -li /rb/2/bin/gzip /rb/2/bin/ifconfig

2441750 -rwxr-xr-x   42 tom      users      114716 Feb  2 17:12 /rb/2/bin/gzip
2441750 -rwxr-xr-x   42 tom      users      114716 Feb  2 17:12 /rb/2/bin/ifconfig

Note the column that says "42".  This means there are 42 files that are
the SAME FILE.  Deleting either one frees *nothing*!  The 2441750 is the
*inode* of the file.  There is a file which is internally called "2441750".
There are *2* directory entries that point to it!  You must delete *all 42*
of them before you free *anything*!  (PS: tomsrtbt won't work if you do...).

-Tom


On Tue, 6 May 2003, Agora wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:28:31 +0200
> From: Agora <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] customizing disk: free sectors problem
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm trying to customize tomsrtbt 2.0.103 to
> add SMB support using the unpack.s/buildit.s
> method described in FAQ question 7.
>
> So, I unpack.s the diskette, and put in 2/bin
> smbmount, smbmnt and smbumount files
> and smbfs.o in 2/lib/modules. All the four files
> were downoladed and bunzip2ed from tombsrtbt
> addons webpage.
>
> These files takes all together 725.328 bytes,
> so I deleted some files that I don't need in
> the diskette (in particular, nc, zcat, gzip,
> gunzip, traceroute, telnet and wget binaries).
> The deleted files free 767.711 bytes,
> so the copied files should fit in the
> diskette, aren't they?
>
> ...But when trying buildit.s I get an
> ugly error message:
>
> ...
> Cannot build, -439 sectors free!
>
> I would like to know:
>
> - What is the rule to calculate the
> disk space that copying/deleting a
> file takes?
>
> - How can I free space to copy
> the files that I need (in general,
> any add-on that would be needed)?
> Deleting more files?
>
> Any help is welcome. Thanks very
> much in advance!
>
> --------
> Fermín
>
> PD. Sorry for the duplicated mail :(
>