lilo contains three different boot entries for the same kernel image. Two of them are normal (label=linux and label=failsafe) the third I don't know what it's for. Anyway, it doesn't look to me like you need to delete any file from that.
Don't bother about the /proc directory, it is not a 'real' directory in the sense that it does not reflect any disk content. It is a place where the kernel visualizes some of its internal varibables (current processes, devices, interrupts, even a memory image). When you browse that directory, you are not really browsing the disk, but the kernel data structures. You can also access (and modify) some of the kernel configuration variables from there. I guess kcore is the image of the kernel... /lib lookes fine. You have different versions of the same libraries, the same is on my system, I guess that normally applications just need to access to the latest library version, and they do so through a 'generic' named symlink, while other programs need a specific library version. But remember, when you see something like libform.so.1 -> ../usr/lib/libform.so.5.2* libform.so.1.9.9e -> ../usr/lib/libform.so.5.2* libform.so.3 -> ../usr/lib/libform.so.5.2* libform.so.3.0 -> ../usr/lib/libform.so.5.2* libform.so.4 -> ../usr/lib/libform.so.5.2* libform.so.4.2 -> ../usr/lib/libform.so.5.2* libform.so.5.0 -> ../usr/lib/libform.so.5.2* libform.so.5.1 -> ../usr/lib/libform.so.5.2* you are not really seeing eight files, only _links_ to one file -- almost no disk space taken by these. I would not deletea anything from the /lib, you might discover one day one application does not work anymore. /etc also looks fine. In summary, I wouldn't touch anything... raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > To overcome LM 8.2 install problems I faced, I have had to perform a series > of installs, upgrade installs and package upgrades. I ended up with some > directories that had superfluous entries. > > I have listed out the contents of lilo.conf and the contents of some > directories. There is obvious redundant files but some are not so obvious to > me. Can someone glance over them quickly and help me identify what files to > delete please? > > The file called "kcore" in the /proc listed below looks to me suspicous. Also > some of the files in the /lib directory look redundant. Some of these files > are not used by the lilo.conf file, also listed below. > > I have also listed out the /etc directory contents. I think there may be at > least one redundant file there. > > Can someone help me identify the redundant files? You can reply directly to > my email address and not the list. >
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