On 07/04/17 11:04 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
* /usr/share is a seperate FS as I've discussed previously It may grow as I add fonts etc
Oh, I forgot to mention, there are tools that can reduce the size of the file system by deleting or otherwise consolidating stuff, in particular stiff that you are never going to use. One of them, 'bleachbit', has the ability to remove all the language translation packages that you are never going to use. if you are the sole user of a machine then you can strip it down to the languages that you do use. What it does not do is go though the dot-desktop files and clean out their innards :-( There are also programs that 'de-duplicate'. Under /usr/share/doc are many copies of the GPL, all identical. Although there are other tools for this, my favourite is the Perl script 'finddups' because it ONLY finds them, it doesn't change anything, it leaves that up to me. The mechanism within 'bleachbit' leaves me uncertain what is actually going on. There is also the compiled file 'fdupes' which has a number of options and is quite fast. I've also just noticed that the package 'kernel-firmware' has not only many copies of the GPL in /usr/share but also many kernel modules that are for hardware I don't have. Pruning that is not something I'd willingly undertake though. YMMV. Of course if you want a 'portable' system, that is, a hard drive you are going to move between different machines, different hardware, different CPUs and CPU types, different device arrays, then such pruning is not something that is going to be useful. Oh, and its something that Microsoft simply will not allow. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org