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I saw a post (I think it was this list, and the following was from |
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memory) a month or two back of someone who did just this. They |
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installed with a past date, then ran the system for a week or so and |
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exercised it extensively. They then did the remove everything based on |
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atime that hadnt been touched. |
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The result was very successful, but they did come across the odd file |
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they had to put back. Testing after the initial delete was considerable. |
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>From my point of view, such a "stripped system" would always be |
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classified as unstable as you never know when it will ask for a file you |
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removed as it is just too complex to check every circumstance. |
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BillK |
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On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 23:07 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:01 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > I'm thinking of a small footprint gentoo produced in this way: |
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> > 1) install everything you need |
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> > 2) note current system time |
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> > 3) reboot and do all operations you need in this small gentoo |
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> > 4) remount with noatime |
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> > 5) find all files in the FS that have an atime before the system time you |
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> > note in 2) |
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> > 6) delete all files found in 5); they were not accessed, so we don't need |
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> > them? |
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> > |
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> > What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work? |
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> no |
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> what about stuff that doesn't run all the time? stuff that cro needs |
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> etc? |
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> look at catalyst, it is the tool for building custom gentoo installs. |
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> > |
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> > THX, |
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> > |
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> > Sascha. |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Air conditioned environment - do not open windows! |
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