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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, James Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2006, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > I used Steven's send/receive routines on individual directories (so as not
> > to copy over a few things I did not want on the laptop) and then deleted
> > /usr/src, compilers, anything to do with sound or scsi or scanners, Xvesa,
> > and some miscellany.  This reduced it from 380MB to 180MB even with two
> > versions each of Opera, links2, and lynx, and a large ghostscript and
> > netpbm, and Abiword and much more.
> >
> > I also deleted a file called 'magic' which said it was needed to play
> > games.
> >
> > I seem to have overdone it, as usual.
>
> I don't have any solution for the problems you mention, but I have what
> might be some helpful advice for the future.  Maybe a better way to do

> this would have been to copy over everything, then go through and see 
> what

I did not have space to copy everything to the laptop drive.  THe original 
1.4GB one had a bad partition table area so we put in the "Apple" 750MB
and I wanted both BL3 and BL2.  I had to shrink BL2 because it was double 
the available size with source code and compilers etc.

I did something similar before to put BL2 onto a scsi external hard disk, 
and it worked.  But took up more space thatn I had for it here.


> seems to you extraneous and add to the beginning of the file or directory
> name del== or something similarly unique.  Then try running the system.
> If things don't work, you can go through and selectively remove the del==
> prefix until you find out what's interfering with normal operation.
> Re-add the del== prefix to anything you may have removed it from that
> seems to not be interfering and see how the system runs.  Once you're sure
> the system is behaving normally, go through and delete everything with the
> del== prefix: surely this deletion process could be easily automated.
>
> James
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