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From: Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 06:53:01
Message-Id: 3948518.tfZo1EGRfM@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories by Dale
1 On Monday 16 May 2011 20:55:39 Dale wrote:
2 > root@smoker / # du -shc /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/
3 > 7.6M /lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r8/
4 > 7.6M total
5 > root@smoker / #
6 >
7 > It's not much but it could help.
8
9 Imagine a system that's been kept updated for over 10 years and a new kernel
10 comes out every month (on average)
11 You could end up with 120 of these, and then it would be 912MB...
12
13 And if you're like me and stick a lot of stuff as modules, then it could be
14 even more....
15
16 --
17 Joost

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>