From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HhbYA-0007aE-LR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:16:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3S1FHVw013371; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:15:17 GMT Received: from customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony11.iinet.net.au (customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony11.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.151]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3S1AmdJ008372 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:10:50 GMT Received: from 203-59-216-218.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.216.218]) by iinet-mail.icp-qv1-irony11.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 28 Apr 2007 09:09:52 +0800 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4HAMU7MkbLO9jaUGdsb2JhbACBaY4eAQEq X-IronPort-AV: i="4.14,463,1170601200"; d="scan'208"; a="72774799:sNHT7368747174" Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A2583EFF2 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:09:51 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6DE7jJ+K3IpL for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:09:39 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD66783EFE3 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:09:39 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200704271212.49816.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> References: <49bf44f10704260759g214dbb00o40c674ca7167cdd2@mail.gmail.com> <200704261738.16205.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <1177639238.28386.49.camel@localhost> <200704271212.49816.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home! Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:09:39 +0800 Message-Id: <1177722579.20553.9.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bfb8f680-955b-416e-b1d6-5c1e267896fe X-Archives-Hash: 69270ec06454ad01ad5a2b6648d05604 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... -- William Kenworthy Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list