%general-entities; ]> Well we have this system finished, we can make it smaller by removing files that are not necessary for our build. On this page we remove the bloat from our build. Now let's create a backup of our build: install -dv ${CLFS}-final cp -arv ${CLFS}/* ${CLFS}-final/ Let's remove the files we don't need anymore: rm -rfv ${CLFS}-final/cross-tools rm -rfv ${CLFS}-final/usr/src/* rm -rfv ${CLFS}-final/usr/include rm -rfv ${CLFS}-final/usr/man rm -rfv ${CLFS}-final/usr/share/man Let's remove the static libaries: FILES="$(ls ${CLFS}-final/lib/*.a ${CLFS}-final/usr/lib/*.a)" for file in $FILES; do rm -fv $file done