I saw a post (I think it was this list, and the following was from memory) a month or two back of someone who did just this. They installed with a past date, then ran the system for a week or so and exercised it extensively. They then did the remove everything based on atime that hadnt been touched.
The result was very successful, but they did come across the odd file they had to put back. Testing after the initial delete was considerable. >From my point of view, such a "stripped system" would always be classified as unstable as you never know when it will ask for a file you removed as it is just too complex to check every circumstance. BillK On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 23:07 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:01 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm thinking of a small footprint gentoo produced in this way: > > > > 1) install everything you need > > 2) note current system time > > 3) reboot and do all operations you need in this small gentoo > > 4) remount with noatime > > 5) find all files in the FS that have an atime before the system time you > > note in 2) > > 6) delete all files found in 5); they were not accessed, so we don't need > > them? > > > > What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work? > > no > > what about stuff that doesn't run all the time? stuff that cro needs > etc? > > look at catalyst, it is the tool for building custom gentoo installs. > > > > > THX, > > > > Sascha. > > > > -- > > Air conditioned environment - do not open windows! > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
