2002-04-10 16:36:43

by Kerl, John

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Subject: RE: Reducing root filesystem

For my boards, I have about a 5 MB RAM disk, at least half of
which is libraries, much of which I know is library routines
which my embedded system never calls. If I were tight on space,
here is where I would trim.

I don't know if you're doing PowerPC or some other processor,
but nonetheless you might check out

http://penguinppc.org/embedded/howto/PowerPC-Embedded-HOWTO.html

and especially section 12:

http://penguinppc.org/embedded/howto/library.html

for some pointers to small C libraries.


-----Original Message-----
From: Amol Kumar Lad [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:08 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Reducing root filesystem


Hi,
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

thanks
Amol

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