Ah darn it forgot to mention that in addition to apt-get clean, if you run apt-get autoremove you *may* also gain some space from removing packages that were installed as prerequisite for other packages, that may no longer be needed.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:00 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > I concur with Robert. If you're just logging temperature, use a console > image, and in fact, if you strip them down, you can get down to just above > 100M with a reasonable amount of tools installed as well. ~160M including > Nodejs, and express. > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I have an old A5C board that I'm bringing up for a temperature logger. >> I >> > flashed 4.1.13-ti-r38 last night, did the usual "apt-get update", >> installed >> > the Atheros firmware, configured the WiFi, and now I'm out of space. I >> can't >> > even use "apt-get remove" at this point. I'd like to keep the MMC as a >> > removable device so I can grab the data once in a while, so putting the >> boot >> > image is less desirable. >> > >> > Is there anyway to re-partition the eMMC card so I can have some >> breathing >> > room to remove some of the unneeded packages? >> >> >> sudo apt-get clean >> >> Otherwise, the A5C has only 2GB on the eMMC.. >> >> If your only doing a temperature logger, just grab the smaller >> "console" image: (around 300MB-ish installed) >> >> >> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Image_Testing_Snapshots >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
