(CC'd as I'm not positive you're subscribed to this list) On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 22:34, Andrew Lyon wrote: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS > has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. > I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS as I'm sure there > must be stuff there that I do not need or use (I admit to running dselect > a little to liberally in the past!). How can I find out the sizes of the > packages and try to establish what I can remove without disaster. I tried > using deborphan to do this but it didn't even put a dent in my 100% full > volume. > No idea if there's a better way to do this, but this will print the list of packages installed, from the biggest to the smallest: sed -n -e '/^Package:/{ s/^Package: *// h } /^Installed-Size:/{ s/^Installed-Size: *// H g s/\n/ / p }' /var/lib/dpkg/status | sort -n -r -k2 Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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