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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
+<sect1 id="ch-tools-stripping">
+<title>Stripping</title>
+<?dbhtml filename="stripping.html"?>
+
+<para>The steps in this section are optional, but if your LFS partition is
+rather small, you will be glad to learn that you can remove some unnecessary
+things. The executables and libraries you have built so far contain about 130
+MB of unneeded debugging symbols. Remove those symbols with:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>strip --strip-debug /tools/lib/*
+strip --strip-unneeded /tools/{,s}bin/*</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The last of the above commands will skip some twenty files, reporting
+that it doesn't recognize their file format. Most of them are scripts instead
+of binaries.</para>
+
+<para>Take care <emphasis>not</emphasis> to use
+<emphasis>--strip-unneeded</emphasis> on the libraries -- the static ones
+would be destroyed and you would have to build the three toolchain packages
+all over again.</para>
+
+<para>To save another 30 MB, you can remove all the documentation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{doc,info,man}</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>You will now need to have at least 850 MB of free space on your LFS
+file system to be able to build and install Glibc in the next phase. If you can
+build and install Glibc, you can build and install the rest too.</para>
+
+</sect1>