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

[Alex Maynard]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:04:14PM -0400, Alex Maynard wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Well removing open-office would probably free 500MB or so. :)
>
> vim if it is installed might be another 20 to 30MB.
>
> Basicaly open-office, emacs and latex are probably among the largest
> most bloated things you can have installed, so if you really think those
> are all useful there probably isn't much hope fitting it on that small a
> disk.


I only use open-office to open spread sheets and word docs. Can I remove
its other functions like database, but keep these or is it all or nothing?


>
> Try this though:
> for pkg in `dpkg -l|grep ^ii|awk '{print $2}'`; do echo -n "$pkg "; apt-cache show $pkg|grep 'Installed-Size:'|head -n 1|awk '{print $2'}; done | sed -e 's/\(.*\) \(.*\)/\2 \1/'|sort -n

Thank you so much. What a useful command. Definitely one to 
write down. No way I'm going to be able to remember this.

I purchased in a hurry before a trip and should have done more research 
first. Apparently they already have versions of the Asus EE with larger 
hard-drives.

Alex

>
> That will list all the installed packages (those matching ^ii in dpkg
> -l) and print the installed size of each one (in 512byte blocks) sorted
> so largest goes last.
>
> For example when I run it on one machine here I get this at the end:
> 58604 cm-super
> 63240 gcc-4.1-powerpc
> 63512 acroread
> 66044 linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64
> 66048 linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64
> 66692 mysql-server-5.0
> 87312 sun-j2re1.5
> 99844 openoffice.org-core
> 100952 texlive-latex-extra
> 138596 texlive-fonts-extra
> 282216 classpath-doc
>
> I guess classpath-doc really ought to go given I have no idea why I
> would need that.  The texlive extras might be redundant too.
>
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