On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:57:31PM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:28:35AM -0500, Nathan S. wrote: > > I'm running linux and Mac on a 4 GB harddrive. The linux partition is, > > regrettably, smaller than the Mac partition and is quickly running out > > of room (only 470 MB free!). I haven't been using linux long enough, so > > I don't know what I can delete to free up some space. Any suggestions > > as to where to start? > > The deborphan package is useful for finding packages, especially > libraries, that can be removed because nothing depends on them. I > usually use "deborphan --guess-all". It's an iterative process: > after you remove some, run it again because there may be more that are > now no longer needed.
It will remove all your developpment libraries though, which you may need if you are wanting to do developpment. There is also a script or something to remove all the documentations, i think, have seen it mentioned in one of the debian lists the last month or so. Friendly, Sven Luther
