Mini debian live

[r.alex.owen at gmail.com (Alex Owen)]

  rm -rf /var/log/*
Would you not be better to just truncate the files in /var/log?
  for name in /var/log/* ; do cat </dev/null >/$name ; done

Alex Owen

On 06/03/07, Hadar <whadar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I made some more minimizations to debian-live using the mini hook.
> The mini flavor with default kernel now takes only 37MB and with networking
> 43MB
>
> Here's the content of the file:
>
> # /usr/share/make-live/hooks/mini - hook list for make-live(8)
>
> # Remove unused packages
> apt-get remove --purge --yes apt-utils libdb4.4 aptitude live-package casper
>
> # Remove unused files
> rm -rf /usr/share/doc/*
> rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*
> rm -rf /usr/share/man/*
> rm -rf /usr/share/i18n/*
> rm -rf /usr/share/info/*
> rm -rf /var/log/*
> rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
> rm -rf /var/cache/apt/
> mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
> rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists
> mkdir -p /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
>
> I still don't know the full consequences of these file removes, nor made
> thorough tests, but it seems to work ;)
> The only problematic removal is rm -rf /var/log/* that should be less
> aggressive...
>
> Notes:
> * The hook removes aptitude which make-live uses. I patched make-live to use
> apt-get instead of aptitude.
> * This hook can be used with other flavors using "make-live --hook mini"
> * Baobab is a great tool for finding big directories :)
> * Another quite big directory is /usr/share/zoneinfo... safe to remove or at
> least part of it?
> * Improvements are most welcome...
>
> Cheers,
> Hadar
>
>
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