Free up space on a small hard drive.

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Re: Free up space on a small hard drive.

Postby morgano » Oct 3rd, '22, 17:04

Congratulations for another GB (wine) :)

I usually trust the orphan removal and exercise it now and then - mostly to try that it is reliable, and for my usage it is.
What may be a problem is if you have installed something from third party that is dependant on a lib you remove, but not probable from what I see.
In short, you have a list of suggestions what to reinstall *if* needed :)
I would go ahead and let it work. (But it is still your decision of course ;) )

If you want to be very careful:
Clearly you can at least safely uninstall lib64digikam* and lib64k3b*
If you do not use akonadi... corresponding packages there.
Lots of *kf5* and kmail, kpim, korganizer... but i think they are "just" for kmail etc, so if you do not use them...
Also, as your kernel works, I would uninstall the suggested kernel and virtualbox.

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Try again later to uninstall geoip-database. What is the error message? If drakrpm do not say clearly, try urpme.

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"flatpak update" updates installed flatpak applications, usually minor change in size, often bigger...
"flatpak uninstall --unused" cleans any no more used dependencies. One example is old no more used video drivers; newer may have been installed by the update command.
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Re: Free up space on a small hard drive.

Postby Linares » Oct 9th, '22, 22:49

I think I can't "scratch" any more disk space anymore. At least, as I am now, I can study and work normally. As I was before posting this post, the system was doing strange things.

I'll bookmark this post, and when my hard drive is full again, I'll start all the steps listed here again.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me, and especially morgano. If you ever come to Linares (Andalusia) I owe you a few beers with their appetizers. :)
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Re: Free up space on a small hard drive.

Postby morgano » Oct 10th, '22, 13:37

:)
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Re: Free up space on a small hard drive.

Postby morgano » Feb 11th, '23, 12:47

By reading an update request *) I now realise we have a compressor for executable files packaged: UPX.
Program files are then stored compressed, and expanded quickly upon loading.
Except for disk space, it may also speed up loading when disk is slow, i.e when using USB. Or generally a slow disk on fast CPU.
Anyone tried it?
Seem to be easy (but of course need to be applied on many big files to make a real difference for a whole system disk)
https://github.com/upx/upx / https://upx.github.io/
Also see https://linux.die.net/man/1/upx, scroll down to "NOTES FOR LINUX [general]".

*) https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31449
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