Here’s a handy-dandy list of things to do to save some hard drive space on yer Linux box. If you’re like me, and have a very, very tiny hard drive (hey, it ain’t the size, its what you do with it that counts), then this could be useful for you.
Of course, the beauty of mucking about on my little netbook is that my boot USB drive makes all mistakes forgivable…provided I remember to save my documents on the SD card.