size of ltsp/images/i386.img

Lee Harr missive at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 22 14:25:34 BST 2010


>> I noticed that before the update
>> the image file was about 230MB and now after the update it is
>> over 335MB.

> My guess is that it contains the packages that are cached from the 
> upgrade in /var/cache/apt/archives. To remove them you could run:
> sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get clean

This took the image from 337MB down to 275MB. A nice reduction.


> You could chroot in and remove the old kernels

Maybe I will try that later...


>> Is the size of that file going to negatively affect performance?

Am I worried about nothing?

That whole image file must not be transferred to the client.
It must just be getting the parts that it is using, right?

 		 	   		  
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