rather than try to whittl a system down
you may be better off thinking long and hard about just how lettle you can get by with and reinstall from there
the best tip I could give you if you go this way would be to use the riser file system for the way it almost compresses the file system

I wouldn't mind reinstalling, but i honestly don't have the time to reconfigre it again atm. I might over the xmass holiday though, but i'll worry about that when the time comes.

Thanks =]

Stuff you can safely remove:

acpid-1.0.4-i486-2
autoconf-2.59-noarch-1
ccache-2.4-i486-1
checkinstall-1.5.3-i486-2
cxxlibs-6.0.0-i486-1
db3-3.3.11-i486-4
devs-2.3.1-noarch-21
fetchmail-6.2.5-i486-1
fileutils-4.1-i386-2
findutils-4.1.7-i386-1
gawk-3.1.4-i486-1
gcc-3.3.4-i486-1
gcc-g++-3.3.4-i486-1
gnupg-1.2.6-i486-1
imapd-4.61-i486-1
indent-2.2.9-i386-1
libtermcap-1.2.3-i486-6
libtool-1.5.10-i486-1
logrotate-3.6.8-i486-1
lsof-4.72-i486-1
m4-1.4.2-i486-1
metamail-2.7-i486-2
mhash-0.9.1-i486-1
netwatch-1.0a-i386-1
openssh-3.9p1-i486-1
openssl-0.9.7d-i486-1
openssl-solibs-0.9.7d-i486-1
perl-5.8.5-i486-2
pidentd-3.0.18-i486-1
pine-4.61-i486-1
popa3d-0.6.4-i486-1
popt-1.7-i386-1
portmap-5.0-i486-1
slocate-2.7-i486-3
strace-4.5.4-i486-1
swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1
tcl-8.4.6-i486-1
tclx-8.3.5-i386-1
tcpdump-3.8.3-i486-2
tcpip-0.17-i486-30
textutils-2.0-i386-1
traceroute-1.4a12-i386-2
wget-1.9.1-i486-1
zlib-1.2.2-i486-1

Note that if you go through with this you won't be able to compile anything, you'll have to stick to the binary .tgz files, but that's okay.

don't mean to be rude black hole, but have you read the post?

hey why don't u check out ur logs in
/var/log

try minimizing them with logrotate.conf

regards

I usually delete the logs in apache2 and removed_packages in there, but i don't know how safe it is to delete everything..

Is it safe to just do
rm-fr /var/log
mkdir /var/log
and expect all the folders and log files to be recreated again in there?

Good idea =]


p.s., Black hole, i also do need to compile in the box, so i'm keeping gcc for now. If it gets desperate, i can compile and create .tgz packages on my machine instead, but i doubt that will need to bed done.

hi
even if u delete the logg files , they will created new ones!!
what will be btetter is to keep logs of 1 or 2 days ,depending on the size instead of deleting them manually..

regards

you can delete a most of the files in locale directories that don't have anything to do with your language.

Yea, but if i delete the whole /var/log directory, then create a new empty one, will it create the folders inside it as well as the required logs again?

No

I'll fix that

Also if you really want something small try Damn Small Linux. That would be good.

so,try being on the safe side,use logrotate and minimize ur logs to KBs or 1or2 days

regards

Do NOT delete whole directory and best to leave log documents existing, but empty (rm -f /var/log/messages ; touch /var/log/messages -for example).
You'll also find a log-cleanup in rc.S.
Somewhere on the forum there's a thread with a routine for cleaning the logs and leaving a certain number of the last lines in there.

As far as i've seen, DSL doesn't have apache, php, and a few other packages i might find usefull.

Slack is good enough for me. Thanks i'll empty /var/log/messages now.

What about:

imapd
perl

Don't think you need it. No more perl however.

Maybe also remove tcl

you also only need the openssl if you are running https(mod_ssl) and gnupgp can also go if you don't want to encrypt anything.

Just think about the most common commands you issue if it isn't in the package you probably ca nremove it.

imapd: I (think) i need that for squirrelmail
perl: yea i can kill.
openssl: tried getting rid of it once, i couldn't ssh into the machine anymore, so i reinstalled it