On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, warren11 wrote about, R.H. 6.1 disk hog:
> Since I upgraded from V5.2 to V6.1 I find my 'hda2' partition is over 73%
> used. I used to have only about 50% used.
If it were to stay the same that would mean that thier is no improvements,
no new programs, no new improved programs and the likes.
The size of a distribution will continue to expand, its the customer who
wants everything, so its only natural that the distro gets bigger.
You dont however need to install everything, its up to the installer to
install what he wants, even windows has that sort of option to a certain
extent.
> I have heard that to get back some space to delete unused fonts.
> I have no need to change fonts, happy with all of them in both console
> and KDE xterms.
There are many things you will possably never use, you spesifiy some under
here, so i would delete them in this case.
> My main bootup drive is /dev/hda2 and is only 1.6 gig. I have a second
> drive of 3.2 gig as /dev/hdb2 and use that for keeping backups of what I
> do in my main drive. That is only 35% full.
Oops, and you were complaining about space.??
Why not split your system into little partitions, Eg; /home /usr/local
/usr/src and possably /var, if you want more spesific details you can find
a message in the archives from me describing this very subject.
For more information check out the archives at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
Use the search engine there to find a "Keyword"
Another good place for info;
http://www.linuxtopia.com
>
> Any other items I can remove ? I don't use ghost scripts, tex latex etc.
As long as you dont remove things like libs, and the likes then why not,
considering you have so much disk space, why not archive them and store
them on the large disk, of course if you have the distribution source then
there is no need to do that as you can always reinstall the deleted
archives/packages when and if needed.
>
> Warren
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