Just noticed that there are no man pages installed on standard unRAID, is an additional install possible? There should be I think a Slackware package for all the man pages.

I'm not sure it's really necessary to install them in unRAID.

I think it would also hurt memory management if installed in the normal place. It would take away from initramfs, buffer cache and application memory.

It's possible to install them onto your array or on your boot flash and set the MANPATH.

It's probably better to install a slackware dev system somewhere and extract them, then put them on your disk share or boot flash and set the MANPATH.

 

weebotech@slacky:~$ du -hs /usr/man /usr/local/man

46M    /usr/man

512    /usr/local/man

if unraid has internet access you could do it with lynx or ftpmount as well

Cool ideas, thanks guys! Just forgot that all the filesystem is actually RAM based. I have a Slackware development VM elsewhere, will extract the directories and install to the 2nd USB stick I'm using on unRAID.

... is an additional install possible? There should be I think a Slackware package for all the man pages.

The following will get you the three Slackware packages that are needed:

wget ftp://slackware.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/man-*.t?z
wget ftp://slackware.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/groff-*.txz

The whole thing takes about 2MB of RAM, which is not really a big deal if you're running on more than 512MB RAM.