it would be an interesting way to stretch the battery usage
I do not understand the rationale: the large program has to be read from the
disk to be loaded into main memory.
if more ram = less swap = less hdd use and the hdd uses way more power than
the ram, then installing more ram could
The figures you gave (after 'sudo apt autoremove' and 'sudo apt clean' for
Trisquel 8) show a 34% increase. If that growth rate remains constant, your
Trisquel 9 system will weight 7.5 GB, your Trisquel 10 system will weight
10.1 GB, your Trisquel 11 will weight 13.6 GB and you will only
If you use 5.6 GB out of 15 GB, what is the problem?
If needed, you can use Trisquel's live system to resize partitions (but,
again, I do not see the need if you use 5.6 GB out of 15 GB). Trisquel's
live system includes GParted, with an easy-to-use GUI.
However, if your user data are on
Baobab (GNOME's Disk Usage Analyzer) shows you a graphical representation of
your disk usage. It initially shows you the whole partition occupation but
you can click on any folder so that it shows what eats up space in that
folder.
5.6 GB for the whole system is actually little. If you
/tmp is emptied at every reboot. You must have had in there a directory with
weird permissions (not allowing to traverse the directory). You can run
Baobab with administrative privileges to not not have any such error:
$ gksu baobab
Do you have any broken packages? The "Synaptic Package
Remove dependencies that are not needed anymore:
$ sudo apt autoremove
Remove DEB packages (however if it needs to be reinstalled it will have to be
downloaded again):
$ sudo apt clean
Identify what eats up space (a specific program?, a log?, LaTeX documentation
and font as on my system?,
