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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > > and deleted every dir except i386?
> >
> > rm -r a*
> > rm -r m*
> > rm -r p*
> > rm -r s*
> > and whatever else is not i386

To do this using the up arrow to repeat previous lines and changing one 
letter took me 8 keystrokes, plus up arrow left arrow backspace character 
(three times) = 14 characters, plus a few more for the last few 
directories, maybe 20 characters.  It was probably quicker than typing 
out your very elegant instructions to delete all but the i386 directory.

> Excellent.
>
> ../arch# find . -type d ! -name "i386" -exec rm -r {} \;

about 56 characters

> In the current directory tree (.), find every subdirectory that
> isn't (!) named "i386" and delete it and all of its contents.

> [delete]
> > There is one large directory I deleted.  Anything ending in .a or .la
> > (using for static compilation).  (Also .pa?).
>
> I only found two files ending in .a in all of my 2.4.19 sources,
> and none with .la or .pa. But I guess that's not surprising.
> Everything's dynamically linked on my debian.

Slackware packages contain or produce a lot of .a and .la files, which are 
big.


> > > I also deleted a lot of what came with glibc2 and was related to
> > > > other languages.
> > > That surprises me, considering what you do.
> >
> > I work in English and EST.
>
> Estonian?

Eastern Standard Time.  There is one directory full of time zones.


> > I left vt100 and 200 and 300 and linux and
> > deleted most of the rest from BL2 (based on Steven's setup in
> > BL3) - I forget which directories.
>
> I have to get the source for that kernel. It is _way_ different
> than debian's 2.4.19.

That came from glibc not kernel source.  usr/share/zoneinfo...
ncurses produced /usr/share/terminfo/.... (/n/ncr260vt100wpp....)

> > I don't even use half the devs that Steven provided
>
> There are always way more /dev file than you need. They're
> not very big so I haven't worried about them much. But still...

I don't even know what some of them are - vcsa7, eda9, ptypf, pcd2, 
inportbm, sonycd, pf3, etc.  I made ttyUSB0 and 1, mixer1, dsp0, fd1d360, 
pda and a few others.

> > I could probably remove lots more if I knew what is was.
>
> Take your own advice and rename and give it a try?
>
> (with rescue disk handy)

Or rename it all *.bak.  Or read about it somewhere.

Sindi