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Tweak to have more disk space on MX Linux 19.2 (Debian 10)
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tweak-reduce-disk-usage.md

Tweak to have more disk space on MX Linux 19.2 (Debian 10)

Steps:

  1. Remove unwanted / unneeded packages
  2. Remove unwanted locale
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unwanted-locale.sh
#!/bin/bash
# URL Reference
# https://wiki.debian.org/Locale
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/477974/how-to-remove-unnecessary-locales
du -sh /usr/share/locale
for i in $(ls /usr/share/locale | grep -i -v ^en); do sudo rm -rf /usr/share/locale/$i; done
sudo ln -s /etc/locale.alias /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
du -sh /usr/share/locale
sudo cp /etc/locale.gen /etc/locale.gen.1
sudo cat /etc/locale.gen.1 | grep -i ^en | sudo tee /etc/locale.gen
sudo locale-gen --purge en_US
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