On 04/27/2011 02:22 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:00, Bruce Kilpatrick<[email protected]> wrote: > >> The question is which of the dot files are really necessary to keep, and >> will it save much room if they are not copied? > browser (and acrobat reader) cache are typically my biggest "hidden" > files. here's how you can tell what's worth investigating/pruning: > > cd ; du -sk .??* | sort -n > > personally speaking, i don't have enough in there to think about > compared to the size of the rest of my homedir (300M:46GB)--and this > home directory is 11 years old ( => lots of stale old dotfiles i could > probably prune if i cared enough). > > but then i also have most apps' cache sizes dialed down pretty low and > did once scrub the acrobat cache dir manually. > > dotfiles used to be mostly config files. and they still are, though > gnome's config file directory is bigger than my entire home directory > was for quite some time. funny, since i don't even use gnome (but do > use some apps that use that framework under the hood, i guess, since > the config files are there and recently modified). > > </ramble> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Thanks Chris,
That provided some more insight. The other thing that is working, the longer I look at the list, the less I see that I think I really need. Most of them can be built new by the new install. Bruce _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
