Re: Two copies of modules?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 05:45:53PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> While looking around on my recently-installed system, I noticed that I have
> both /stand/amd64/... and /stand/amd64-xen/...
> 
> It appears (at least with a superficial scan) that both of these have the
> same contents.
> 
> I'm not sure why sysinst created both copies.  And I'm even less sure if the
> amd64-xen copy can be safely removed without screwing up the rest of the
> system!
> 
> Clues?

bare-metal and Xen kernel are not ABI-compatible, so they are two sets
of modules, one for each ABI.
If you don't plan to use Xen, you can safely remove /stand/amd64-xen/

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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