On Thursday 13 June 2019 01:18:33 pm Russell Brown wrote:

> Gene,
>
> Quoth Gene Heskett.....
>
> >And I didn't want to load up the u-sd the
> >pi boots from with all that tex stuff, probably 3 to 4 gigs worth.
>
> You might find this useful:
>
> 	dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size;10}\t${Package}\n' |
> sort -k1,1n
>
> Shows the installed packages in ascending size so you can see what's
> eating the space and get rid of it with an "apt-get remove".

the space isn't the real problem, its the write cycles wearing out the 
u-sd card. Its not squawking yet, but it is getting awfully slow at 
writing. And I don't have a dd-able backup image to make another. If you 
know of such a utility for armrf, please advise.


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