I'm near the end -- installing Util-linux, and my lfs partition is full!! How frustrating! I had reserved 2.1 gig for LFS, and I guess its not quite enough. I don't have a means to backup this partition (my other partitions are close to full). Nor do I have a CD burner, zip drive, etc.. So resizing the partition is not an option at this point.

Are there any files that I can remove? I've done a 'make clean' on all the package directories already. I'm thinking man-pages could be the first to go.

Thanks!

My suggestion: keep your compressed package files and their patches. Remove all your source trees when you're done using them. If you ever need them again, you can decompress them and apply the patch(es) using an on-demand basis.

As soon as you boot into the system the first time, remove the static directory when you feel the system is stable. Then also consider stripping the debug information from your executables (mentioned a little later in the book).

However, this problem won't go away just because you finish the system. You'll still need to acquire more space if you plan to install anything later.

When you say "remove source trees" do you mean all the decompressed pacakges (including sub directories)? Does the install process put all the executables, libraries, etc into /bin, /lib, etc. so that its safe to delete souce trees?

BTW, I was able to free up just enough space to squeak by the rest of the chapter, and when I removed the bebugging info and /static, I am down to 60% used!

Thanks for the suggestion.

Yeah, after you issue "make install" command, all the needed files are copied over to your system directories. So you can remove the directories created when you un-tarred the package.

There is a issue with that actually...
When you finish with installing the system and you begin with the beyond lfs, you will need that space so its recomended to delete the /static tree, as these are the sources and are not needed any more.

But, if you actually plan on upgrade/update something, you will have to uninstall the previous version (always a good idea, although you can install over the old one) prior to install the new one, this is made from the source using "make uninstall", also, not every app has the uninstall option.

When i was told of this i had already deleted the sources so i couldnt uninstall, but i kept the tarballs in a directory in another partition, where i have the lfs and blfs directories, and i install/uninstall decompressing the sources over there and when im finish with them i delete them again. its always a food idea to keep secure all the tarballs...

just a though