[OpenAFS] Building libafs.ko on Debian without full kernel sources

Kevin openafs@gnosys.biz
Tue, 17 May 2005 21:31:21 -0400


On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 20:39 -0400, zeroguy wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:37:53 -0400
> Kevin <openafs@gnosys.biz> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe /opt too?  Putting /var there seems like it might be a bad idea,
> > but maybe some directories in /var?  /var seems to get quite large on
> > Debian.
> > 
> 
> You may want to look into what's causing so much space before you try
> just plopping it into AFS. /var/ on my debian box doesn't seem too
> large. Are you sure it's not just the apt archives? Try 'apt-get clean'
> to get rid of them. (Otherwise, just du -h /var to see what's taking up
> so much space.)

Well, I'm starting with only about 788MB in the local HDD to start with
(it's an old Apple PPC 7300 with very limited memory and HDD space).  I
will clean the apt archives regularly, but still...  Are the apt
archives something that could be stored in afs?

Thanks for the comments.

-Kevin