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#1 2009-10-08 22:55:11

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Shrinking an arch linux installation

I'm not a newbie, but I found no other real fit forum for this tongue I stumbled myself upon a netbook with a 16GB SSD card. I dont want to shrink the partitions, as that wont do much good, but, what can I do to remove unnessicary files from my system. Thanks in advance, ajwak95


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#2 2009-10-08 23:04:39

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Re: Shrinking an arch linux installation

Stick to one toolkit (Qt or GTK e.g.), install lightweight applications, remove unneeded locales (this is something you have to do manually and repeat after packages get updated).


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#3 2009-10-08 23:42:40

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Re: Shrinking an arch linux installation

im trying to apply the "keep it simple" on FileSystem, so I try to remove all stuff i really don't want.

my partition is of 14G (i wanted because of the symlinks for music/images/works/special documents).
I am using 9,4G whith the kde4.3 + fluxbox.

Also, about ~4G of the used space is for apps which are found on AUR and some which are installed from external sources, and the games i use (et)
about gtk, I got chromium, gimp and openoffice (which are somehow important)

I actually remove the packages with the flags: -Rnsc (which will remove all unused packages installed as dependencies.

there are some few flags which u may try, including -Qqdt [use carefully and check it, really]
(to show packages which have not been explicitly installed (by you) and the packages that actually have been installed as  dependencies and are not being needed)

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#4 2009-10-08 23:52:55

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Re: Shrinking an arch linux installation

will have to try those, thanks guys/gals!


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#5 2009-10-09 00:49:19

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Re: Shrinking an arch linux installation

another possible help is using upx... it compresses executables, so what i did the other day was du -scb `find / -type f -executable|grep -v '.so'`|sort -n... and then ran upx on a few of the bigger ones (eg g++)... not a huge saving, but once you're running out of things to do it could be an idea...

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#6 2009-10-09 01:04:52

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Re: Shrinking an arch linux installation

Two important apps for finding disk hogs: xdiskusage and pacgraph.

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#7 2009-10-09 01:31:24

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Re: Shrinking an arch linux installation

I'm just trying to keep it free of storage, so that I have room to store files. I've networked several of my serverrs for various storage, which helps alot.


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#8 2009-10-09 02:00:29

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Re: Shrinking an arch linux installation

squashfs your /usr and /opt. Mount them with loopback and use aufs for rw support.


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#9 2009-10-09 02:10:56

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Re: Shrinking an arch linux installation

@hjon how would one go about doing that?


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