Just went in to do this clean up. Found even more stuff too. Some interesting bitmaps in that siag stuff. Again a good thread. We sure have a great community! Thanks guys.
Robert, you know we love ya.
Besides, we need to make room, and squeeze even more life out of our lil' 50mb monster (GRUB!!!). ^_^Well, here is my first post on this subject. Hope i'm not stepping on anyones toes by reposting things that might have already been posted...and this is just /etc, i'll give the rest of the base another look later ;p...I've been meaning to make this list for /etc for several weeks now but since someone finally started a thread and it got responses: Upon my perusal of our /etc...There are many things we can do to Free up these inodes & inode space, and here are lots of orphaned files. Perhaps when ran against a 0.9.3 tree we can get a diff of the space usage? :0 I don't feel like taking the time to do that.
While this list is of course not all inclusive, and i am probably wrong about a few things...I just thought I 'd throw it out there. ;)
Basically a lot of things in /etc can be cleaned up as far as whitespace/blank lines go... since blank lines take up space too. (i know, 1 character, but, hey, its still wasted space)
[d] denotes directory
[d]/etc/3270 -empty [d]/etc/CORBA -why CORBA? [d]/etc/alternatives -useful? [d]/etc/autoconf2.13 -empty [d]/etc/bind -default bind config? why? we dont have bind ;\ [d]/etc/calendar -empty /etc/calife.auth -cat calife.auth and tell me whats so great about it ;p [d]/etc/console -empty /etc/defaultdomain -if we change it will it break something? [d]/etc/drdsl -empty [d]/etc/esound -not empty, but do we use e? or esd? [d]/etc/exim -empty /etc/exports -empty /etc/fonts -we dont have fontconfig..so? /etc/gateways -we're not running routed. /etc/group -the group file can be sized down. /etc/gshadow -sized down with group (since when do we shadow groupfiles ;\ unless you're using group pass...and we aren't?) /etc/*.org -we can lose the .org files, they're just 'originals' /etc/gpm-root -sadly, we don't have gpm (if we'd add it that'd be great) /etc/group- -because we already have a group /etc/passwd- -because we already have a passwd /etc/shadow- -because we already have a shadow ^^^ -we don't need backup copies made until we go to change the password.. -we definitely dont need .org's and -'s..one or the other or neither. [d]/etc/gtk -empty /etc/hdparm.conf -lots of whitespace [d]/etc/htcheck -empty [d]/etc/htdig/* -unused [d]/etc/irc -unused /etc/issue* -get rid of one, and symlink the other to one. [d]/etc/libgda -empty /etc/lisarc -empty [d]/etc/logcheck -what do we use here? [d]/etc/logrotate -don't think we're using logrotate either. [d]/etc/lvm* -these are for logical volume manager...we dont use that! /etc/magic -we're not usign the magic file...tis taking space. /etc/mailname -do we need it? it says Knoppix [d]/etc/mc -midnight commander, but its empty...if it needs it (and we're root, it'll make it) [d]/etc/menu* -empty [d]/etc/mgp -empty [d]/etc/mindi -empty /etc/nessus -bad symlink [d]/etc/news -empty [d]/etc/nmh -empty /etc/nsswitch.conf -are we using this? [d]/etc/oaf -empty [d]/etc/perl/* -empty [d]/etc/ppa/* -lots of whitespace in those files [d]/etc/rc.boot -empty [d]/etc/sane.d -for scsi, sane d...do we use it? [d]/etc/resolvconf/* -empty dirs. [d]/etc/sound -yeah, do we need it? [d]/etc/ssl/* -empty dirs /etc/sysctl.conf -empty [d]/etc/thttpd -we're not running thttpd. [d]/etc/tmake -empty. [d]/etc/vfs/* -empty. [d]/etc/xtel -empty.The broadcom nic module is not probed at boot.
