Recommended hard drive diet?

Andy stude.list at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 15 12:59:50 UTC 2006


On 15/12/06, David Armour <d.f.armour at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I'm reminding myself of the engineer Dilbert was testing who answered "all of
> them!" when asked how many of the pens in his pocket protector he needed: most
> of the files I'm using, I'm using weekly. But I like the idea of periodically
> moving most of 'em to cd.
I just found a mildly useful command, based on the Debian popularity-contest:
popcon-largest-unused

Apparently my largest unused is tetex-base, however I will actually
start using that at some point.
It also suggests I get rid of the kernel headers (I need them to
compile my WiFi if I ever need to plug that back in).

I'm not sure if anyone has suggested thus, and I don't know how to go
about it, but is there some way of safely removing all the old
Kernels? (I know how to erase them from grubs menu but I was thinking
more along the lines of actually removing the image). Any docs for
this?

Wasn't there going to be an application for this kind of thing at some point?

- Andy

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