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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: purpose of /stand ??? Date: 15 Apr 1996 20:37:13 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4kuc1p$cj0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31724B4D.41C67EA6@merlin.rockwell.cz> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 petr <petr@merlin.rockwell.cz> writes: >what's the purpose of the /stand directory. It's a leftover from the installation. You can keep it as a set of emergency recovery tools, but you can also safely remove them if you prefer. >Moreover, looking at the size of the /stand files, I found them really >big comparing to files in /bin. :-)) Have you also been looking at the link count of the files? It's just one large blurb of a binary, a so-called ``crunched'' one. So your only option is to remove either all of its links, or none. Removing just one link (say, /stand/ls) wouldn't gain you anything. Ahoj a dobry ve'cer! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)