[luau] Hard drive clean up questions

[Ben Beeson]

Thanks Eric,

	I'll try that.

Ben 


On Monday 07 April 2003 09:18 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
>
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