Am 15.02.2012 21:30, schrieb Craig Thompson: > I was working on archiving an old virtual server today and was reminded of how much space is wasted by some of the default installations on CentOS. I think this was a 5.x box. > > Anyway, in /usr/lib/64 (and probably /usr/lib on non-64 systems), there were a lot of directories which have no bearing on a basic server. I saw firefox, openoffice and many, many other directories -- replete with enough files to seriously affect backup space over time. > > Does anyone have an available script or list of commands for removing most or all of these "generally unused" directories, packages or whatever they are? > > I found something a while back for shutting off unused services, but this seems to be a gaping hole in available archives. > > Thanks. > > CT You are kidding, are you? Uninstall unused / unnecessary software cleanly using using yum (or rpm). *Don't* randomly delete filesystem structures you think they are pointless or wasting harddrive space. Alexander