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Article #912Re: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg)
From: David Meyer
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 21:03
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 21:03
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In article <1992Nov7.172031.10284@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes: >After installing amstex and amslatex on my NeXT, I discovered several >additional files that were not needed. Namely duplicate copies of files >that could easily be replaced with symbolic links. > >In /usr/lib/tex/formats: > >splain.fmt == slitex.fmt (576k) >lplain.fmt == latex.fmt (496k) >plain.fmt == tex.fmt (288k) You actually lost some disk space by doing this. All of the files you replaced with symbolic links were in fact hard links. If you'd done an "ls -i", you would have seen that all the duplicate files share the same inode. BTW, the same is true of /sdmach and /odmach. Dave -- David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu University of Virginia NeXTmail ok
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!rincewind.mech.virginia.edu!dmm0t From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) Subject: Re: TeX disk space inefficiencies. (save ~2 meg) Message-ID: <1992Nov7.210306.22436@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <1992Nov7.172031.10284@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:03:06 GMT Lines: 25