From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTzu8-0007uk-RP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:12:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FAF1E0CA3; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f181.google.com (mail-px0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F90BE0CA3 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi5 with SMTP id 5so458631pxi.40 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3jeIbiIMdb+XKaEASKLT7U47NZ0PL2nAjg2NMBqMThc=; b=kU4/RW1Fy1/2cAVT+ySI082EDEE4TxUiVU7mOhmfav6bmnyitfWgkZPE+lDYjQ/q53 mf1tZwcUhMwJ4UurephwNK6cIEI6Ljhn7VtPbxYz9hRzMcmsiNGHYpWVamqGQGhNCgnL duHHDHjNKi9C6Hfl7ExQAq3rKS/hZNqolycDw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pqkj20LM1ViSOt+XVxv2tRy5Dh4eVMie11Ebi9S6PlYrT6G/R53Lv87FqSVwjjyoId +mO6ibcdMiWOQC7KYpoy6mc5abr8RIYwVB7xksSHQaERrAgdIScpGBF7aooQJNJ4BR9c 4q5eG6wFQyn1yJe+T75+U/Ia+HlWvEG40WnPI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.66.13 with SMTP id o13mr10724252wfa.72.1277914343953; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.98.3 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:12:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4C2B4B47.9090603@gmx.ch> <4C2B5941.6090609@gmx.ch> <4C2B5A9C.5060609@gmail.com> <20100630164544.0b213cf9@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:12:23 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: de6d9da1-2922-4dcb-8828-79fbfc411cf6 X-Archives-Hash: c3112e1d3e69d24626b6159ca4bda71b On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Kyle Bader wrote: >>> Since space is a issue for you, you really only need the kernel sources >>> for the kernel you are using. =C2=A0One could argue that if you have a = well >>> built kernel and don't plan to change it in the future, you could >>> remove its sources too. =C2=A0I would save a copy of the config tho. >> >> I'd certainly argue that. A single set of sources can take up more than >> half a gigabyte after compilation. If you use make install to install th= e >> kernel, it puts a backup of the config in /boot automatically. > > It is also good to keep the System.map and vmlinux file in case you or > someone else needs to debug your kernel traces. > > -- > > Kyle Also, if you want to get rid of source but keep the tree you can do make clean (I think) to get rid of the stuff that got built. Always keep .confg AND make sure your running kernel supports /proc/config.gz as a second means of not losing info. Cheers, Mark