From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 113537 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2018 04:11:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 113080 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2018 04:11:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Trade, apologies, sk:www.the, sk:wwwthe X-HELO: TheWorld.com Received: from pcls6.std.com (HELO TheWorld.com) (192.74.137.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 04:11:14 +0000 Received: from pcls8.std.com (pcls8.std.com [192.74.137.148]) by TheWorld.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id w6A4AUrg014344; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:10:32 -0400 Received: from pcls8 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcls8.std.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id w6A4AOiw008244; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:10:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <23364.12720.381316.199665@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 04:11:00 -0000 From: bzs@theworld.com To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cleanup disk space (was: /lib/debug/usr/bin/cygwin1.dbg) In-Reply-To: References: <20180708174540.GA32080@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 I hesitate to jump in here but what about the common compression programs cygwin provides like bzip2 and xz? Maybe everyone knows about them and clearly you can't do this on files you actually need to use (e.g., executables, tho looking at /usr/bin some are 20MB each and if you know you don't actually run them ever...) And even an error can generally be undone with a simple uncompress command within reason. Don't compress the respective uncompress command! And zip and tar can be used to package up entire directories or wildcard matched files in one command. And if you find you really don't miss what you packed up they can be moved off disk entirely to a thumb drive or CD/DVD or whatever for more savings tho that's also true of the uncompressed versions but zip or tar archives are particularly handy for this. Maybe it's too obvious, apologies. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo* -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple