On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 12:40:15AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > It would be nice to trim it down some without losing too much > > functionality. Any opinions on these candidates for the ax? > > > > * /usr/share/locale 7MB > > Have a look at the "localepurge" package. Haven't tried it myself (yet) > though.
Thanks, I didn't know about that one. > Add /usr/share/info to your list. Good catch. It's not too big, but it'll help. > > * console-data ?? > > > > Ditch most of the keymaps and fonts. Box won't have a > > console most of the time anyway. > > You may also want to keep an eye on the size of /var/log. Can easily be > a dozen of Mb's. Yup, I've been thinking about a couple different ways to trim down log files. > If space is still a problem then install another disk. That's not an option, though I can jump from a 128M "disk" (compact flash, actually) to a 256M one, but there's a cost impact. As long as I can get it down below 90M or so (so it's smaller than Windows-NTE). If I can't come up with a reasonably useful system that's smaller than NT, then I'm going to have to put up with a lot of snickering. Too bad webmin burns 15MB+ of disk space. I don't think most people are going to use it, but web-based admin is a big plus in the eyes of marketing. > Failing that, start feeling uneasy and look at: > > - keep tabs on how much swap space is used. Then decide on the minimum > amount of swap needed, leaving the rest for filesystems. So far I've been running without swap. I've got more RAM than disk, so swap doesn't make much sense. > - Apply duster in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb Didn't know about that one either. > - *really, really* tight on space: clear out /var/lib/apt/lists > after each install. Yup -- done that. Saved almost 10MB. > You probably want to run apt-get update before the > next install/upgrade anyway. Right. I'll make a note that doing apt-get update/upgrade will require an 10MB of disk space temporarily. > - *really, really, really, really badly* tight on space, remove apt. Not that tight! > dpkg will do fine if you don't mind downloading and sorting out > dependencies by hand :-) Nah. The system still needs to be administratable in a somewhat "normal" manner. Losing apt would be too much of a > > If a user requires anything I delete, he can always re-install > > it (I'll leave dpkg, apt, and frieds)... > > You're not letting everybody roam as root, are you !? Bad choice of words on my part. By "user" I mean the eventual owner (and administrator) of the box. Thanks for the pointers! -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
