Re: Can I run linux without a file system?
From: Wolfgang Denk <hidden>
Date: 2002-06-21 21:06:07
In message [ref] you wrote:
I can say that a minimum RedHat install uses 29,296 files 382.020MB, debian 10,734 files - 67.428MB, my minimal root filesystem 82 files and 4.8MB.
You cannot really call this a "minimal root filesystem". A small (not even this is minimal, nor optimized) image can be found at ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/mini-2048kB-ramdisk.image.gz This has: -> find . . ./lost+found ./bin ./bin/sh ./bin/ls ./dev ./dev/ttyS0 ./dev/tty ./dev/console ./lib ./lib/ld.so.1 ./lib/libc-1.99.so ./lib/libc.so.6 ./lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 ./lib/libtermcap.so.2 -> du -sk . 1367 . Obvious optimizations: rmdir lost+found, use busybox instead of bash + ls, ... Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/