[H-GEN] dpkg statistics & Re: altering disk partitions

[Marco Grigull]

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On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:46:09 +1000
"Christopher Biggs" <listjunkie at pobox.com> wrote:

> Hey, whaddya know, I wrote a Perl script to do it six months ago.  
> I have no memory of those events; but I /never/ throw out a script.  
> I probably wrote this because I have some debian systems where RAM is so
> tight that the package manager programs take FOREVER to sort the
> package list.   
> 

Thanks Chris.
This works nicely.  Choosing what has to go is the hard part.

When I originally sliced up the system, I alocated about 3 GB for /,
and 20 GB for /usr/disk1, which contains home, usr/{src,local,games},
apt-package caches, webserver root, etc. to which the root fs has symbolic
links to.   With 'just the os' on /root, one would have hoped 3 GB 
would be enough.  Guess not.

Cheers,
Marco

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