Re: Reducing root filesystem

Piotr Esden-Tempski
2002-04-10T15:15:46Z

Hi,
You can try using dietlibc (http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/) and other
tools listed on http://www.fefe.de/ . There is also a project rewriting
shell tools in assembler but I do not remember the name. This should
reduce required root space a little.

cheers Esden

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:38:09PM +0530, Amol Kumar Lad wrote:
> 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
>
> please CC me
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