Re: [ILUG] laptop slimdown...

From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Tue 23 May 2000 - 23:29:44 IST


On Tue, 23 May 2000, kevin lyda wrote:

> 9) if all else fails look to remove extra locale files, unused
> binaries (be really sure on this), make sure man pages are
> gzipped (or nuke them altogether).

or even bzip2 them.

however, the problem here is that a lot of man pages are links, and
they will be left dangling if you do a "cd /usr/man/man1 ; bzip2 *"

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