Re: customizing disk: free sectors problem

Tom Oehser <[email protected]> Wed, 7 May 2003 07:51:58 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tomsrtbt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > You need to learn how hard links work.  Consider:

> Ok, thanks! Now all make sense... although is very amazing
> to me that 42 programs (gzip, ifconfig, etc.) with very different
> functions were the same physical file (the same inode, I mean)...
> Where is the trick? :)

They are "busybox", a multifunction thing, note that linking
the programs together saves space by reducing overhead as well
as allowing them to share common stuff.

> If disk space cannot be freed deleting files, how

Oh- it *can* be freed by deleting files.  It is just
harder than you thought.  For example, you could delete
pcmcia drivers you don't use, or man pages.

> can I configure the tomsrtbt diskette to
> include SMB support (that is, de smbfs.o
> module and the smbmount, smbmnt and
> smbumount files to mount/umount remote
> shared resources)? Or it is impossible?

It certainly is not easy to find free space.  If you
can't find enough, you can always put it on a second
floppy diskette...

-Tom