golinux wrote:Even at that, the snapshot iso came to 22.7gb. (I can post the package list if you're interested.) What exactly am I supposed to do with that? Would that big an iso even work?
jaazus...
I think I would be interested in seeing that package list just for sheer morbid curiosity.
Usually if I create one that is huge then it is because I have misplaced some iso images or squashed files on the system. So I usually pull up a disk usage tool and comb thru things and try to find anything that was lost.
Also having a bunch of themes installed will often bloat an install too. But if you use a disk usage tool then you can usually spot that usage as well.
Other than that maybe some temp files that multimedia apps love to create, the apt cache of course, obviously remove that xsession-errors file, remove packages you do not need, so on and so forth.
Another thing, probably not relevant, is to be sure any swap files are excluded.
Another thing you can do is to edit the snapshot script to not remove the copy it makes of your filesystem and then you can look through that to see exactly what is or is not being included.
But you should be able to write that image to a large (obviously) usb drive and run it live or install from it. I believe I created one that was 10gb in size. Of course I purposely made a number of 1gb files to make the image that big in order to try it out.
If all of this has been covered in the thread then just ignore me....