%general-entities; ]> Remove Unecessary Files 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 lets create a backup of our build: install -dv ${CLFS}-final cp -arv ${CLFS}/* ${CLFS}-final/ Lets 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 Lets remove the static libaries: FILES="`ls ${CLFS}-final/lib/*.a ${CLFS}-final/usr/lib/*.a`" for file in $FILES; do rm -fv $file done