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creating a live CD

Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:46 pm

I found a link at forums.debian.net,
and thought i would save it here
(where it is more easy to be found):
http://pacificsimplicity.ca/node/85

Re: creating a live CD

Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:03 am

...bleachbit to remove any extraneous files
glad to see cleanup via bleachbit was mentioned

...but, to me, the recommendation to NOT cleanup localization files seems like poor advice.
Performing
dpkg-reconfigure locales
(or hand-editing / etc/locale.gen and running locale-gen)
and / or
installing localepurge
and
running bleachbit (as root, to cleanup localization files)

will eliminate ~140Mb of cruft from the resulting system image
and will improve the speed of future find/locate operations.

linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2009/08/optimize-disk-space-by-removing.html
lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg01069.html

I go a step further in cleaning, searching the filesystem for filenames matching "zh" (iso code for chinese localization)
to find the localization files which were "missed" by localepurge and bleachbit
(and were left behind regardless of "remove completely" dpkg/synaptic directive)
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