On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:30:59AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +0000, ][ wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to > > > make the whole thing a bit smaller? > > > > >From my personal archive: > > > > A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-clean' will be included with this > [...] > > retrieved from > > http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Remaster_From_Hd_Install_HowTo > > less than a year ago. > > > > check out the rest there. > > Eep. Even after running the cleanup script, the process of doing an > apt-get update and reinstalling one package increases the size of the > squashfs from 685M to 1.1G. It seems like all it does in terms of > cleaning up after apt/dpkg is to call 'apt-get clean' which apparently > only removes .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives - the > meta-information sticks around, and that is quite huge in Debian. > The cleanup script does provide a nifty tool to build upon, though!
Public service announcement: Unmounting /proc in your chroot before you squash it is probably one of the more useful ways of keeping it small. --j (who doesn't feel overly smart right now)
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