Disk space by filetype
Robert Brockway
rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 13 08:36:47 UTC 2006
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Jason Spiro wrote:
> I often seem to fill up my hard drive to the max.
>
> I have been wondering if it is practical to write a script to use UPX
> to pack the binaries and shared libraries of seldom-used applications
Binaries (and thus libraries) tend to compress poorly. I'd say you have
little to gain from doing this.
I bought a 300GB drive in a combined firewire/usb2 enclosure for about
$240 (incl tax) the day before yesterday.
IMHO the solutions to this problem are:
a) Increasing drive capacity
b) Improved data management
c) Both a and b.
> (those whose last access time is long ago.) Or perhaps even strip
> them, though that makes GDB backtraces upon crashes quite useless.
Feel free to strip your binaries if they are not already. No problem
there if you don't want debugging output. The savings still won't be
huge.
Cheers,
Rob
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