Re: Out of space - drop one language

[Christian Leber <christian@leber.de>]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:35:59PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:

Hello,

> because of the "improved" translations and new translateable strings,
> the root disk became too large.

I have looked a bit at the file system of the root disk and I'm a
wondering if the devices.tar.gz could not be moved to the modules.tgz or
to a normal .deb package.

If this is not possible there could be saved some bytes:
core:~# cat devices.tar.gz |wc -c
  47242
core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip|wc -c
  47242
core:~# cat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|wc -c
  27559
core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|wc -c
  40158
core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|gzip -9|wc -c
  24104

so it seems to me that tar don't use the -9 option

the root-image is compresses with -9, so this could save space
(I don't know how this looks like within extfs2's and in combination
with other data)

line 358:
 "tar zcf $devtarball dev" -> "tar c dev|gzip -9>$devtarball"
 
BTW: is it possible to build boot-floppies without root?
(a long time ago compiling boot-floppies killed my filesystem and my
spare computer is really to slow)

Christian Leber

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