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<H2><A NAME="SECTION005105000000000000000">Tips for saving disk space</A></H2>
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The best tip for saving disk space is to avoid installing
unnecessary programs. Most Linux distributions have an
option to install only part of the packages they contain,
and by analyzing your needs you might notice that you don't
need most of them. This will help save a lot of disk space,
since many programs are quite large. Even if you do need a
particular package or program, you might not need all of it.
For example, some on-line documentation might be unnecessary,
as might some of the Elisp files for GNU Emacs, some of the
fonts for X11, or some of the libraries for programming.
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If you cannot uninstall packages, you might look into
compression. Compression programs such as <tt>gzip</tt><A NAME="1806"> </A> or
<tt>zip</tt><A NAME="1808"> </A> will compress (and uncompress) individual files
or groups of files. The <tt>gzexe</tt><A NAME="1810"> </A> system will compress and
uncompress programs invisibly to the user (unused programs
are compressed, then uncompressed as they are used).
The experimental <tt>DouBle</tt><A NAME="1812"> </A> system
will compress all files in a filesystem, invisibly to the
programs that use them. (If you are familiar with products
such as Stacker for MS-DOS, the principle is the same.)
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<I>Lars Wirzenius <BR>
Sat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997</I>
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