size of ltsp/images/i386.img

[Lee Harr]

Hi;

I am fairly new to the Ubuntu LTSP system, though I used LTSP 4
for many years previously.

I really like the new way of piggybacking the clients from the server
so that they will be much easier to update. I will probably have a
few questions, though  :o)


I just updated the client image following these instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/UpdatingChroot

Everything is working (well... except for blender. See my other
recent message about that) but I noticed that before the update
the image file was about 230MB and now after the update it is
over 335MB.

I looked at the installed packages in the chroot, and it looks like
there may be some things that could be removed (like there are
3 kernel packages) but I am not sure I want to go ripping things
out of there without really knowing what I am doing.

Is it normal for that image file to grow so much?
Is the size of that file going to negatively affect performance?
Is there a way to easily know what I could remove?

Thanks for any advice.

 		 	   		  
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