[Live-demo] Saving 600mb of disk space

[Johan Van de Wauw]

svn directories are indeed an example which should not be added. It is
possible to exclude them:
Q. From the command line how do I exclude paths matching a pattern?
A. To exclude directories: findup \( -path "*/.svn" \) -prune -o
   To exclude files:       findup \( ! -name "*.py[co]" \)

But actually the good solution is not having .svn directories in /usr and /opt.

I have fslinted /usr on my harddrive since ages(+5y), and never
encountered problems from that (well at least I was never aware of
any). Maybe check if there are any directories not owned by root -
these might contain files that might be changed. Perhaps you can
exclude scripts as well, as they are more likely to be changed than
binary files, and most likely don't use that much disk space.


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hamish wrote:
>> > but fyi I've just cleared out 600mb.
>
> Cameron:
>> Hamish, well done with this. How did you achieve this disk
>> saving?
>
> by implementing Johan's ideas:
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2010-October/002727.html
>
> I suspect the hardlinks will be best reserved for DVD use, but
> maybe I'm just over cautious. (edit one version of the duplicate,
> you change them all; delete one version of the hardlinked file
> and the others remain intact). If it's a problem we just have to
> make the scanning list exclude those. (e.g. if you run it over
> the a .svn/ dir it will link both the working version and the
> backup version, so 'svn diff' will no longer work)
>
>
> Hamish
>
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