Re: What to ditch on small disk system?
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 12:40:15AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > It would be nice to trim it down some without losing too much
> > functionality. Any opinions on these candidates for the ax?
> >
> > * /usr/share/locale 7MB
>
> Have a look at the "localepurge" package. Haven't tried it myself (yet)
> though.
Thanks, I didn't know about that one.
> Add /usr/share/info to your list.
Good catch. It's not too big, but it'll help.
> > * console-data ??
> >
> > Ditch most of the keymaps and fonts. Box won't have a
> > console most of the time anyway.
>
> You may also want to keep an eye on the size of /var/log. Can easily be
> a dozen of Mb's.
Yup, I've been thinking about a couple different ways to trim
down log files.
> If space is still a problem then install another disk.
That's not an option, though I can jump from a 128M "disk"
(compact flash, actually) to a 256M one, but there's a cost
impact. As long as I can get it down below 90M or so (so it's
smaller than Windows-NTE). If I can't come up with a
reasonably useful system that's smaller than NT, then I'm going
to have to put up with a lot of snickering.
Too bad webmin burns 15MB+ of disk space. I don't think most
people are going to use it, but web-based admin is a big plus in
the eyes of marketing.
> Failing that, start feeling uneasy and look at:
>
> - keep tabs on how much swap space is used. Then decide on the minimum
> amount of swap needed, leaving the rest for filesystems.
So far I've been running without swap. I've got more RAM than
disk, so swap doesn't make much sense.
> - Apply duster in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
Didn't know about that one either.
> - *really, really* tight on space: clear out /var/lib/apt/lists
> after each install.
Yup -- done that. Saved almost 10MB.
> You probably want to run apt-get update before the
> next install/upgrade anyway.
Right. I'll make a note that doing apt-get update/upgrade will
require an 10MB of disk space temporarily.
> - *really, really, really, really badly* tight on space, remove apt.
Not that tight!
> dpkg will do fine if you don't mind downloading and sorting out
> dependencies by hand :-)
Nah. The system still needs to be administratable in a
somewhat "normal" manner. Losing apt would be too much of a
> > If a user requires anything I delete, he can always re-install
> > it (I'll leave dpkg, apt, and frieds)...
>
> You're not letting everybody roam as root, are you !?
Bad choice of words on my part. By "user" I mean the eventual
owner (and administrator) of the box.
Thanks for the pointers!
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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