Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] 1.3.5_etc_migration_problem

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> root@devil:/shm/mnt # ll
> total 14M
> - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0M Apr 23 23:24 etc-mods.tar.bz2
> - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.0M Apr 16 17:13 etc.tar.bz2
> - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.0M Apr 23 23:23 etc.tar.bz2_orig

Just to double check, does a 'df' show free space?

> However, it seems that the new file is stored correctly!

I recently moved the gzip programs from /bin to /usr/bin, but I didn't
touch bzip2, and save-config doesn't seem to have any paths hardcoded.

Is there something I can do to duplicate the error message?

> But what i see now is, that the new file is about 1MB smaller.
> Is this ok? I thought the new etc should save more than just a
> megabyte, or i am wrong?
> 
> (I have a lot of snort-rule files in it, maybe that's the reason??)

You have something in there that's large.  It might be the snort stuff.
My etc-mods.tar.bz2 files have ranged from 4K to 32K, and all easily fit
on a floppy, along side my old/larger config.

You can find out what's being stored in memory by examining 
/shm/etc-mods, something like:

  find /shm/etc-mods -type f

 - BS