Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Q" <q_dolan_at_yahoo.com.au>
To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc: <current_at_freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: binaries installed mult. times / no symlinks ?


> If you had checked the link count you would have seen that the binaries
> you mentioned are actually not installed multiple times, but are "hard
> linked" under multiple names, and therefore only take up the space of a
> single instance of the file. If these binary files are located on the
> same filesystem it is preferable to hardlink rather than symlink them.
> I'm not sure if you noticed, but deleting a file with a link count
> greater than one will not free up any space, so deleting them is
> fruitless unless to plan to delete all of the references.
>
> If you want something really small, check out the picobsd project on the
> freebsd website.
>
> Seeya...Q
>
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 18:52, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had been going through /usr/bin to see what I would need for a very
> > small installation and noticed that there are binaries
> > installed multiple times with different names of course.
> >
> > My question now would be if symlinking wouldn't suffice ? From those
> > that I had not deleted I remember the following duplicates that most
> > likely are not all of those exist...
> >
> > Mail -> mail
> > Mail -> mailx
> > less -> more
> > awk -> nawk
> > nvi -> nview
> > cksum -> sum
> > reset -> tset
> > nvi -> vi
> > nvi -> view
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