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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > e3vi and e3pi are the same file (with two names).
> ls -l showed them as two separate files with 12K 
> each.  Why?

Because ls sees them as standalone files.
If you do: 
-----
ln -i 
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you will see that both files have the same 
inode (i.e. they are the same file).

> I typed what you said to type, 

I didn't say to type exactly that.  I normally
put exact commands inside two parallel lines.

> with only if=/dev/ram1 and no of.

dd is possibly the most dangerous command in Linux.
If you don't know exactly what you are doing, you
probaby shouldn't be using it.

> > links2 is 2-3mb (depending on how it's compiled).  
> > You've only got 1.6mb left on the ramdisk.
> 
> the package you compiled is 1.9MB 

That's the compressed package.  The uncompressed 
executable (which is what needs to sit on the
filesystem) is over 3mb.

> There is also the links-ssl version that you found 
> for uClibC.  

diet-libc

> I don't recall what was wrong with it - is it larger 
> than 0.90?

Yes and no.  The actual executable is larger than 0.90,
but it has been compressed by the UPX executable packer.

> > swapon /full/pathname/of/file 
>
> would swapon -a (for all swap files) work too?  

No.

Cheers,
Steven

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