Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:08:31 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Reducing root filesystem |
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:28:13AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Wed Apr 10, 2002 at 07:38:09PM +0530, Amol Kumar Lad wrote: > > I am porting Linux to an embedded system. Currently my rootfilesystem is > > around 2.5 MB (after keeping it to minimal and adding tools like busybox). I > > want to furthur reduce it to say maximum of 1.5 MB. > > Please suggest some link/references where I can find the details to optimise > > my root filesystem > > busybox and uClibc are both a good start...
Yup. Busybox+tinylogin with glibc makes a 900kB (compressed) ramdisk on StrongARM. I think I can make this a lot smaller when I use uClibc.
Erik
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