Subject: Re: those dumb questions
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@isds.Duke.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/16/1995 22:08:34
Jonathan Stone writes:
 > An off-the-top-of-a-mildly-feverish-head reply to Andrew's messagew:
 > 
 > >With a kernel or two sitting in it, the root partition needs over 16M
 > >- mine's at 19M now w/2 kernels - perhaps it would be good to warn
 > >people of this & tell them to use a 32M root.
 > 
 > I find a 16M root is perfectly adequate. I keep five kernels and a
 > full /{bin,sbin,etc} on a 16M root partition. Then again I still have
 > stripped a.out binaries. Maybe the ELF symbol table is much bigger, or
 > maybe strip is broken.  Ted is the right person to check this one.

Something about strip is sure broken.  csh is 640k.  Running file on
it tells me csh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable Version 1.  Striping it
gives me a 315k file.  Running file again tells me csh: ELF 32-bit LSB
executable Version 1.  Attempting to run the stripped file gives me an
IOT trap.

Drew