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From: pa@appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Slimming down a file system
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.010650.892@appmag.com>
Date: 9 Apr 91 01:06:50 GMT
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Organization: R&D, Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA
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sma@devcom.com (Steve Adams) writes:

>   We bought a CD-Rom to save disk space.  Simply delete the files in
>/usr/lpp/info/En_US and mount the Info-Explorer disk there.

Some of the smaller ones are used by smit.  Don't know which ones.
If you remove everything, smit won't be as good in maintenance mode,
when the CD-ROM is unavailable (sez my SE).

  --Pierre Asselin, R&D, Applied Magnetics.  I speak for me.