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Mentioned stripping debug symbols.

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@ -7,6 +7,20 @@ been a long process but it was well worth it. We wish you a lot of fun
with your new shiny custom built Linux system.
</para>
<para>
Now would be a good time to strip all debug symbols from the binaries on your
LFS system. If you are not a programmer and don't plan on debugging your
software, then you will be happy to know that you can reclaim a few tens of megs
by removing debug symbols. This process causes no inconvenience other than not
being able to debug the software fully anymore, which is not an issue if you
don't know how to debug. You can remove the symbols by executing the following
command:
</para>
<blockquote><literallayout>
<userinput>find / -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'</userinput>
</literallayout></blockquote>
<para>
If you plan to ever upgrade to a newer LFS version in the future it
will be a good idea to create the /etc/lfs-&version; file. By having