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ninian

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Chainsaw ways of saving space on Eee PC and flash drive installations?

My 4GB SSD and 4GB flash drive installations are feeling the strain after recent updates (especially the Python2/3 stuff) and I need to save drive space. Of course, I've removed any unnecessary packages (jre and openoffice-base are the biggest), but now I need to take a chainsaw to further bloat. At present, I've saved the following (approximately) by removing unused files from:

175MB : /usr/share/locale
110MB : /usr/share/doc
48MB : /usr/share/gtk-doc
20MB : /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD
20MB : /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/dict*

Now I'm looking further ... since I don't compile (well, very rarely) on these installations could /usr/include be savaged too?
Any ideas gratefully received.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: Chainsaw ways of saving space on Eee PC and flash drive installations?

Yep, /usr/include. And static libraries (*.a files in /usr/lib). Also /usr/share/man, if you haven't removed that already. On my netbook, this would give an additional 184MB free. I don't have a space problem though, this thing has an 8GB SSD, and /home is on a 16GB SD card.

ninian

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 726

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Re: Chainsaw ways of saving space on Eee PC and flash drive installations?

Yep, /usr/include. And static libraries (*.a files in /usr/lib). Also /usr/share/man, if you haven't removed that already. On my netbook, this would give an additional 184MB free. I don't have a space problem though, this thing has an 8GB SSD, and /home is on a 16GB SD card.

Thanks Gusar, those suggestions could give me around a vital 240 MB more free!