This is what I got applying the above procedure to one of my machines.
Before the treatment, df
reported I used 398,798 1024--blocks:
df
reported 244,668 used blocks;
upx
on /usr/bin,
/usr/X11R6/bin, /usr/lib/texmf/bin/i586-linux,
and /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.7.2.1. 226,270 used blocks;
To sum up, I started with 398,798 blocks and finished with 198,745. Think of
the stuff you can shove in those 200,000 spared blocks! I would have saved
even more if I had used bzip2
instead of gzip
.
On average, if you are careful from the beginning and install only the necessary applications, compressing executables and documents will save you some 20 Mb. On a notebook, this can be a lifesaver.