kernel question

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

im running on an x86 compatible, is it safe to delete all of the kernel directories for sparc and ppc?

delta407 · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 7:23 am Post subject:

AFAIK, yes. The worst that can happen is you would have to emerge ___-sources again. (Unless you rm -r /, in which case things are much worse.)

But, the better question: why?
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syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

just trying to free up some space.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 17130

du -hs /usr/src/linux/arch reports 34M on my system (if that is the directory you are referring to. du -hs i386 reports the i386 dir using 6.9M. Not much savings... how small is your drive?
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syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

im have sources for kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r7&r1 and 2.5.25 installed.

i get 45M for arch on 2.5.25 and
i get 37M for arch on 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 and
i get 28M for arch on 2.4.19-r1
=110M
respectively, the i386 directory of these are :
14M
8.7M
1.9M
= 24.6

so i can delete 85.4M of useless(to me) data? my src directory is on a small(650M) partition on a drive i share as a storage drive. why go through the trouble of resizing the partiton or anything else for that matter if i can just delete some sources that ill never use?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 17130

Sounds good... I was just curious.
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syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

i did delete these directories, all but i386..and it seems fine, i compiled a copy of my current kernel and it finished with no errors..

just like to end a thread with the final result