Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-28 Thread Florian Weimer
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:12:48AM +1000, Jonathan Oxer wrote: > Consider also not just what packages are installed but other things that > could be using space: logs, caches etc. Not too many machines would have > 3GB of actual packages installed unless you'd been *really* liberal with > dselect

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-26 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > How can I find out the sizes of the > packages and try to establish what I can remove without disaster. I tried > using deborphan to do this but it didn't even put a dent in my 100% full > volume. I was faced with a similar problem s

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-26 Thread Andrew Joseph Lyon
Thanks for that Scott. It works very nicely. Regards Andy

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
(CC'd as I'm not positive you're subscribed to this list) On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 22:34, Andrew Lyon wrote: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS > has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. > I don't really want to allocate any

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-26 Thread Daniel Serpell
El Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:15:49AM +0100, Bruce Stephens escribio: > > This script shows installed packages together with their installed > size: > > #!/bin/sh > gawk 'BEGIN {RS=""; FS="\n"} > $2~/ installed/ { > split($1, pkg, " "); > split($5, size, " ")

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS > has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. > I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS as I'm sure there > must

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: [snip] > a little to liberally in the past!). How can I find out the sizes of the > packages and try to establish what I can remove without disaster. I tried > using deborphan to do this but it didn't even put a dent in my 100% full > v

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Jonathan Oxer
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 07:34, Andrew Lyon wrote: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS > has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. > I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS as I'm sure there > must be stuff ther

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! (This question actually belongs to debian-user, but the heck with it) Am 2003-09-23 22:34 +0100 schrieb Andrew Lyon: > How can I find out the sizes of the packages apt-cache show will print a field 'Size: xxx' which shows the installed size in bytes (IIRC). For your purpose it may be mor

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Bruce Stephens
Andrew Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for > my OS has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the > partition. I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS > as I'm sure there must be stuff there that I

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS > has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. Try to start with "du -sk /var/* | sort -n" and "du -sk /usr/{lib,share}/* | sort -n"