Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-28 Thread Florian Weimer
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:12:48AM +1000, Jonathan Oxer wrote: Consider also not just what packages are installed but other things that could be using space: logs, caches etc. Not too many machines would have 3GB of actual packages installed unless you'd been *really* liberal with dselect

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-26 Thread Daniel Serpell
El Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:15:49AM +0100, Bruce Stephens escribio: This script shows installed packages together with their installed size: #!/bin/sh gawk 'BEGIN {RS=; FS=\n} $2~/ installed/ { split($1, pkg, ); split($5, size, );

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
(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

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-26 Thread Andrew Joseph Lyon
Thanks for that Scott. It works very nicely. Regards Andy

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-26 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: 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. I was faced with a similar problem some

The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Andrew Lyon
Hello, 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

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, 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. Try to start with du -sk /var/* | sort -n and du -sk /usr/{lib,share}/* | sort -n.

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Bruce Stephens
Andrew Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! (This question actually belongs to debian-user, but the heck with it) Am 2003-09-23 22:34 +0100 schrieb Andrew Lyon: How can I find out the sizes of the packages apt-cache show packagename will print a field 'Size: xxx' which shows the installed size in bytes (IIRC). For your purpose it

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Jonathan Oxer
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 07:34, 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

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: [snip] 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

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, 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