[luau] Hard drive clean up questions

[Eric Hattemer]

Firstly, as far as I know, these only really matter for compiling kernel 
dependent sources.  So you could so just as well to remove them all if 
you don't compile anything.  But to be safe, its always nice to have 
some kernel headers.  So go ahead and get rid of 2.2, then link linux to 
linux-2.4.  Its becomes a crazy chain link, but it makes it easier if 
say you upgrade to 2.4.30 or something in the future.  Of course, the 
most sensible way to do it is to move linux-2.2 somewhere weird like 
/root, then use the computer for a week and make sure nothing goes 
wrong.  Then get rid of it entirely.  Also, you can probably cd into 
both of those dirs and do a gmake clean;.  That'll get rid of a lot of 
.o files that you probably don't need.  You should be able to torch any 
files (not directories) under readhat.  There are no libraries in the 
linux kernel directories, only header files.  So once something is 
compiled and runable, it should theoretically not have any dependence on 
those anymore.  But just to be safe, move 2.2, wait a while, then delete 
it. 

-Eric Hattemer

Ben Beeson wrote:

>Aloha,
>
>	I need to free up some space on my hard drive and I thought /usr/src might 
>be a good place to start as it appears I have several versions of old kernel 
>sources stored there.   I need some advice on what is safe to delete without 
>screwing up the system references to libraries etc. 
>  
>