Disk space by filetype

[ted leslie]

Many years ago i went and stripped my binaries,
killed X,
something in X required atleast one of its files to be non-stripped,
i just restored the /usr/X11R6 and it gave me my graphics back.
I stripped everything else on the system fine however.

Doesn't pay to get to picky with space savings,
i just bought two 500GB hardrives for 340$ each,
this shit just keeps coming down in price.

I take 20GB drives out of servers, and smash them to distroy the data on them,
thats a whole lot cheaper then formatting them (truely format them to clean them) 
and try and peddle them for 3$ each.

I am sure some of the refurb shops must have used 20GB HD's for 5$ a peice, if that?



-tl

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:36:47 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Brockway <rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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