Re: Removal of /stand Directory

Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote:
>> -  Move gzip to /bin and use /bin/gzip and /bin/pax to handle 
>> compressed archives (see arch_at_ thread for patch). Overall is a savings 
>> in /.
> 
> Frankly, having a file pointing to an inode with 135 links in /bin sort 
> of scares me. Putting a stand-alone version of gzip in /bin isn't going 
> to save any space in /.

Ryan is proposing moving /usr/bin/gzip to /bin/gzip.
/usr/bin/gzip only has 4 links: gzip, gunzip, gzcat, and zcat.

I think you're confusing this with /rescue/gzip, which is a very
different thing, indeed.

Cheers,

Tim