[sheflug] Disk cleanup

[steve.tickle [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm sorry, I'm going to necessarily be a bit vague here. A box I have access 
to is running a bit low on disk space. I think part (if not all) of the 
reason is that I did an apt-get dist-upgrade some time back and it installed 
X and a load of other stuff I don't need (the box is a web and mailserver 
located in London) and we don't run X partly because we don't need it and 
partly because it would just be another potential security hole/something 
else to to wrong. It may also have been because I installed a package or 
packages some time back and because of dependencies and dependencies of 
dependencies all this guff got installed. 

I wasn't too bothered at the time but now, as I say, diskspace is becoming a 
bit of an issue. 

Anyway, to the crux of the matter. Does anyone have any suggestions as to 
how I can retrieve a bit of diskspace without breaking anything? I could of 
course uninstall X but I'm fairly sure apt-get would scream at me about 
dependencies and I'm certainly not familiar enough with the vagaries of 
Linux to make any informed judgements about what to answer. Equally, I could 
also just delete some directories but that's also equally ham-fisted. 

I appreciate that people won't know what apps and services the box is 
supposed to be running so perhaps there's no real answer to my problem. 

I'd be very interested in what people have to say and enormously grateful 
for any help though, even so. 

Regards
-- 
Steve

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