Re: what is /command directory?
[ Sorry this is a late posting, haven't been reading much mail lately,
but ...
I noticed I had the same /command directory, ... so
dpkg -S /command
daemontools
(pulled in by 'djbdns-installer')
a 'dpkg --purge daemontools' got rid of the '/command /service and
/package' directories.
[ nothing new below ]
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:27:26AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> 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.
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