Re: what is /command directory?

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:58:13AM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote:

> On Saturday 25 August 2007 07:52 pm, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full.
> > I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes.
> > Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices.  I also notice a number
> > of directories I've never heard of before under root:
> >    command, package, service
> >
> > 'service' contains a symlink to /etc/tinydns, left over from an attempt
> > to install tinydns, I assume.  Is it likely the others also belong to
> > tinydns, because if so I can delete them as it didn't run anyway.
> >
> > TIA
> > --
> > richard
> 
> On my system, /service and /command are each 4k since they only contain 
> links.  /package is 1.8M. 
> Check yours from a terminal (as root) with:
> #du -h /command
> #du -h /service
> #du -h /package
> These directories belong to the DJB series of packages, so if you are not 
> using tinydns, you can remove them, but you will be saving very little space.

Thanks Mark.  I have now removed them -- and a stack of symlinks to them
in /usr/bin /usr/local/bin and so on.  And then I remembered I had to
purge package djbinstaller as well!  Pity it never worked though --
people who use tinydns speak well of it.

No, you are right, it saves little space, but it does tidy things up and
remove some non FHS directories.

-- 
richard