Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

depends:

I have been caught with a non-bootable system a few times and its much
easier to start from an existing config and go from there (After
numerous disasters, I wont use genkernel - even if its supposedly ok
these days)

A (very) few in-tree stuff still seems to want a kernel
(vmware-modules?) - not sure what but these days I always keep the last
two around as Ive been caught in the past.

I also do an occasional ext package - sometimes they want kernel source
code.

So yes, on a basic, user system you dont need it.  But do something out
of the ordinary and its quite handy to keep the source code around...

YMMV
BillK




On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:12 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Freitag, 27. April 2007, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> >
> > rm -rf /usr/src/linux* - dangerous, lokk in there first and only remove
> > what you are not using (i.e., leave your current kernel, plus one other
> > "good" version as a backup - the number of times Ive had to roll
> > back ... :)
> 
> emm, no. Not dangerous at all. After you installed your kernel and the 3rd 
> party modules, you can safely remove the source-dir. There is nothing in it 
> that is needed anymore. And you don't keep old 'backup sources'. Backup 
> kernels in /boot are good enough... 
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