So, compared to Arch, Fedora 14 is still using a heckuva lot of root space. They both have 30 Gbs for root; Fedora is taking up just over half that much, and Arch is taking 9 Gbs of it.
I did some checking into it today. Guess what's taking up a heckuva lot of root space in Fedora:
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[root@dedanna dedanna]# du -akx / | sort -nr | head -n 30
16192740 /
9544884 /usr
6125720 /var
5981388 /usr/share
3482884 /var/spool
3482800 /var/spool/abrt
2507376 /usr/lib
2145028 /var/cache
1573432 /var/cache/abrt-di
1573428 /var/cache/abrt-di/usr
1573424 /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib
1573420 /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug
1573416 /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/.build-id
782492 /usr/share/locale
712596 /usr/bin
565856 /usr/share/icons
423540 /usr/share/doc
404388 /usr/share/backgrounds
396792 /var/lib
374056 /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/0c
367456 /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/0c/c5f0c764f93c3debec06919d036278a8dc15d6.debug
339704 /usr/lib/python2.7
327240 /usr/lib/openoffice.org
312188 /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
291268 /usr/share/wesnoth
287744 /usr/share/wesnoth/data
283628 /usr/lib/openoffice.org/basis3.3
266132 /var/cache/yum
262528 /usr/share/texmf
250564 /var/lib/rpm
You got it - ABRT (/var/spool/abrt)
Granted there's a lot of backgrounds and stuff, but ABRT taking up as much root space as it does has me curious to say the least.
I wonder if Fedora can run without it, because really, I don't care too much about reporting to Fedora's bugzilla, and if I find something wrong myself, I don't need ABRT to tell me. I can report it myself by installing the debug package for whatever it is at the time. I know when a program's crashing, TYVM.
It does appear that it can be removed without too much hassle:
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Removing:
abrt i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 1.3 M
Removing for dependencies:
abrt-addon-ccpp i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 46 k
abrt-addon-kerneloops i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 53 k
abrt-addon-python i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 19 k
abrt-desktop i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 0.0
abrt-gui i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 485 k
abrt-plugin-bugzilla i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 59 k
abrt-plugin-logger i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 18 k
abrt-plugin-runapp i686 1.1.17-1.fc14 @updates 8.0 k
Transaction Summary
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Remove 9 Package(s)
Installed size: 2.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
Yeah, think I'll go for it, but I really don't know if that will get rid of what's being used in root of it. We'll see after I'm done.
WELL... after having removed ABRT, it appears that it doesn't remove its remnants of what it's done. I still have the exact same thing for du -akx / | sort -nr | head -n 30.
I wonder if I can remove those ABRT things in /var/cache and /var/spool manually? I could conceivably move them to my /home folder if it won't harm my system not to have them there in root, which is now what I've done, which freed up a whopping 2.1Gbs in root.
Now, for the next big one, that would be /usr/share/locale. I'm wondering why on earth, Fedora devels would think I need all of these locales, which take up another 717Mbs of root space:
The problem being, I don't remember what package they're in.