Hello
I have a warning message telling me I have low disc space left in "Filesystem root" (1.45MB of 7.45GiB). Some time ago I uninstalled a few programmes but did not remove them completely. Does this leave them taking up space?
I seem to remember one of them was epiphany yet I still have epiphany-data there. In synaptic, it tells me under installed (auto removable) there are several including epiphany-data. But it also includes kde-data and I cannot see me having to uninstall this.
Is there a way to completely uninstall these "orphaned" programmes without naming them?
Otherwise, I have 2 partitions with a reserve install of Ubuntu 8.04
which I could use to absorb some of the folders or extend / to another partition. But which one and how?
usr has 4.4GB with 380,000+ items, lib has just under 1GB, var has 2/3GB, sys has 621MB.
I could uninstall some programmes I don't use like abiword and gnumeric and amarok so should I "completely remove" them or might this lose some shared dependencies?
/home has 27.94GiB (3.36 used); the other 2 (Ubuntu 8.04) have 7.45GiB and 28.6GiB.
Thanks
James
-- James Kilty
Make sure you have deborphan installed first and:
dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1 > ./deinstall.candidates.list
deborphan --guess-all > ./deborphan.candidates.list
If you're happy with the results proceed with (as root):
deborphan --guess-all | xargs apt-get -y remove
dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg -P
Might need a couple of runs on a heavily crap-filled
system to fully clean them up - watch out for false positives and reinstall them if necessary.
Cheers,
Mat
