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cipherus
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 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: trimming os footprint |
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| I have a Xen VPS with about 4gb of space and right off the bat Gentoo is using about 2gb. Is there a way I can dramatically trim down stuff from the OS? All I really use it for is lighttpd / screen irssi / and eAthena. eAthena needs a lot of room for data files (minimum 2gb). |
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NaturalRandom
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| If you compile with -Os and compress your portage tree with squashfs, I think you can shave off about 500 more mb. |
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cipherus
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| alright, i guess that's it huh? thanks for the reply, much appreciated. |
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tarpman
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Pay attention to your USE flags: start with USE="-*" in /etc/make.conf, run every emerge with -pv, and add USE flags that you want (being careful not to break anything). Run eclean-dist --destructive after updates. Run emerge --depclean (and revdep-rebuild after) from time to time. Use localepurge.
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