friedgold
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Posted: June 24 2005,13:48 |
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From http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lfs/html/chapter06/aboutdebug.html
| Quote | Most programs and libraries are, by default, compiled with debugging symbols included.
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As most people will probably never use a debugger on their system software, a lot of disk space can be regained by removing these symbols. To remove debugging symbols from a binary (which must be an a.out or ELF binary), run strip --strip-debug filename |
I thought I'd try this with DSL 1.2.1 to see if any space can be freed. Since DSL doesn't include strip I made the remaster on my Debian machine. I copied the contents of the KNOPPIX image to a source directory and then used:
| Code Sample | cd /path/to/source/dir
find {,usr/,usr/local/}{bin,sbin,lib} -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';' |
I then recreated the KNOPPIX image using best compression. The difference in size is as follows:
Before - 49237759 bytes
After - 48615540 bytes
i.e. a saving of just over 600Kb. I made a remaster using this new image and so far haven't detected any problems.
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