Disk full -- any suggestions on what to move to SD card?

[Alex Maynard]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Jamon Camisso wrote:

> Alex Maynard wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm just trying to set up ubuntu on the Asus EE.  With just 4 GB hard-drive 
>> I'm not able to install all the programs I need even after moving my own 
>> files to the external SD drive.
>> 
>> To resolve this I was thinking of also moving some of the system file 
>> directories to the SD drive, but want to be sure that the ones I move
>> are non-critical ones, so that I could boot and have basic functionality
>> without the SD card.  Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should
>> (or shouldn't) move over to the SD card?
>
> Correction to my previous email, apt-get clean.


Jamon, Thanks for the good suggestion. Any particularly large software 
packages that I could safely remove.  I mainly use just emacs, latex, 
open-office, firefox, acroread.  I'm removing gimp, xsane, evolution.
Are there any other large applications that I could remove to pair down on 
space?

Alex

>
> Jamon

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