Laurentiu Pancescu kirjoitti 19.8.2017 klo 9.03: > We have to uninstall some packages that Anaconda insists on always > installing, but we don't regain the space used by those packages unless > we fill the freed sectors with zeros. How about: for pkg in $packages_to_be_removed do rpm -ql $pkg | while read file do if [ -f $file ] then shred -n0 -uz $file fi done done rpm --erase $packages_to_be_removed This would eliminate the need of having to use dd. Obviously some packages may want to run an uninstallation script at uninstall time, which may (or may not) cause errors if some critical executables have vanished. rpm's --noscripts may help in that case, if running the uninstallation script is not actually necessary. With the dd step removed, enlarging the file system size should be easier, if desired.