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Thank you for reading my "help mail"!!
I'm trying to build up a two-set of rescue diskettes (a boot and a root floppy). To build the root floppy I have created a filesystem that contains the basic directories /dev /bin /sbin /etc /lib /proc /usr /mnt with all the needed files and subdirectories. The only /lib directory takes 4547 Kbytes while the others altogether take less than 2000 Kbytes. So, the problem is that the filesystem take about 6500 Kbytes and is too large to fit only one floppy, infact the "gzipped" file takes about 2032 Kbytes while the floppy can contain only 1440 Kbytes. I think the problem is not in the /bin and /sbin directories because I have not insert too much commands in them and anyway eliminating some other command you'll gain a very little space. The problem is the /lib directory. In particular, the file libc-2.1.2.so takes more than 4000 kbytes (I have Linux RedHat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20) and I think is not possible to eliminate it because almost all the basic commands use this file. How can I reduce the size of /lib directory in order to fit the root filesystem in a floppy? Enrico Campanelli
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