On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, David Morris wrote: > OK, I downloaded the source for the 2.0.24 kernel and compiled a custom > kernel > yesterday. And now I have the tree leftover taking up 30M on my hard drive. > And I was wondering what I can clean up to free up the space. > > I am tempted to rm -r the whole tree (which I have done previously), but I > see > the Documentation that I might want to keep some things handy (like the > documentation). So what do I do with all the include files? should I copy > them > all over to the /usr/include directory? and do I want to leave something > hanging around /usr/src/linux?
You can delete all the drivers you don't use (drivers/scsi, for example, is a good choice if you have only IDE), arch/{alpha,m68k,mips,ppc,sparc}... this way you will be able to recompile again, just in case. > -- > The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Juan Cespedes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]