How do I reduce the size of locale-archive?
I have a need to reduce the size of the locale-archive file on some of my RHEL6 systems.
Here is that file on my system:
[root@-dev-007 locale]# ls -l
total 96800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99158704 Sep 9 15:22 locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 20 2012 locale-archive.tmpl
So I did this ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --list | grep zh_CN
zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
... so I figured I could get rid of zh_CN like so ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --delete-from-archive zh_CN
... and I can see zh_CN does not get listed anymore like so ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --list | grep zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
... but the size of the locale-archive does not get smaller ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# ls -l
total 96800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99158704 Sep 9 17:16 locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 20 2012 locale-archive.tmpl
... is there something else I need to do?
rhel disk-usage locale
edited Sep 10 '13 at 17:05
Joel Taylor
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asked Sep 9 '13 at 21:22
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I have a need to reduce the size of the locale-archive file on some of my RHEL6 systems.
Here is that file on my system:
[root@-dev-007 locale]# ls -l
total 96800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99158704 Sep 9 15:22 locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 20 2012 locale-archive.tmpl
So I did this ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --list | grep zh_CN
zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
... so I figured I could get rid of zh_CN like so ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --delete-from-archive zh_CN
... and I can see zh_CN does not get listed anymore like so ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --list | grep zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
... but the size of the locale-archive does not get smaller ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# ls -l
total 96800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99158704 Sep 9 17:16 locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 20 2012 locale-archive.tmpl
... is there something else I need to do?
rhel disk-usage locale
edited Sep 10 '13 at 17:05
Joel Taylor
743413
asked Sep 9 '13 at 21:22
Red CricketRed Cricket
1,21431832
add a comment |
I have a need to reduce the size of the locale-archive file on some of my RHEL6 systems.
Here is that file on my system:
[root@-dev-007 locale]# ls -l
total 96800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99158704 Sep 9 15:22 locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 20 2012 locale-archive.tmpl
So I did this ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --list | grep zh_CN
zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
... so I figured I could get rid of zh_CN like so ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --delete-from-archive zh_CN
... and I can see zh_CN does not get listed anymore like so ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --list | grep zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
... but the size of the locale-archive does not get smaller ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# ls -l
total 96800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99158704 Sep 9 17:16 locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 20 2012 locale-archive.tmpl
... is there something else I need to do?
rhel disk-usage locale
edited Sep 10 '13 at 17:05
Joel Taylor
743413
asked Sep 9 '13 at 21:22
Red CricketRed Cricket
1,21431832
I have a need to reduce the size of the locale-archive file on some of my RHEL6 systems.
Here is that file on my system:
[root@-dev-007 locale]# ls -l
total 96800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99158704 Sep 9 15:22 locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 20 2012 locale-archive.tmpl
So I did this ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --list | grep zh_CN
zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
... so I figured I could get rid of zh_CN like so ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --delete-from-archive zh_CN
... and I can see zh_CN does not get listed anymore like so ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# localedef --list | grep zh_CN
zh_CN.gb18030
zh_CN.gb2312
zh_CN.gbk
zh_CN.utf8
... but the size of the locale-archive does not get smaller ...
[root@-dev-007 locale]# ls -l
total 96800
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99158704 Sep 9 17:16 locale-archive
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 20 2012 locale-archive.tmpl
... is there something else I need to do?
rhel disk-usage locale
rhel disk-usage locale
edited Sep 10 '13 at 17:05
Joel Taylor
743413
asked Sep 9 '13 at 21:22
Red CricketRed Cricket
1,21431832
edited Sep 10 '13 at 17:05
Joel Taylor
743413
asked Sep 9 '13 at 21:22
Red CricketRed Cricket
1,21431832
edited Sep 10 '13 at 17:05
Joel Taylor
743413
edited Sep 10 '13 at 17:05
Joel Taylor
743413
edited Sep 10 '13 at 17:05
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743413
asked Sep 9 '13 at 21:22
Red CricketRed Cricket
1,21431832
asked Sep 9 '13 at 21:22
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You can first remove all unneeded locales by doing:
$localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs localedef --delete-from-archive
Where ^en can be replaced by the locale you wish to keep
Then
$build-locale-archive
If this gives you an error similar to
$build-locale-archive
/usr/sbin/build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
Then try this
$mv /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
$build-locale-archive
If that still fails, check your version. According to this page newer versions don't have the necessary files to rebuild the archive in order to save space. You'll need to run
yum reinstall glibc-common
In later releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you may use dnf, a similar application.
edited May 9 '16 at 23:32
Thomas Dickey
52.8k597170
answered Sep 9 '13 at 23:06
Joel TaylorJoel Taylor
743413
3
I noticed though that I loss my ssh connection to the host when I executebuild-locale-archive... any way of preventing this?
– Red Cricket
Sep 10 '13 at 22:23
2
I'd be careful attempting this. Broke my CentOS server and took me 30 mins to figure out a solution. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246705/…
– PJ Brunet
Dec 1 '15 at 23:02
dnf in rhel??? Surely you mean yum ;-)
– Dani_l
May 7 '16 at 13:53
add a comment |
On Amazon Linux
Delete the unused archives from the locale-archive. This command deletes all except the ones beginning with en.
localedef --delete-from-archive $(localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs)
Copy the locale-archive (with removed locales) file to be the new locale-archive.tmpl file
cp /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
Run build-locale-archive
build-locale-archive
Note: If you run build-locale-archive it zeros out the .tmpl file after each run and when you run it again you will see the error:
build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
You can get a copy of the locale-archive.tmpl file either by copying the current locale-archive to locale-archive.tmpl or by downloading and unpacking glibc-common. If you use the default locale-archive.tmpl file from the glibc-common RPM and run build-locale-archive against it, it will create a full (~102MB) locale-archive. You need to repeat the above steps to get the smaller size archive.
In the above case deleting all locales except the en_* ones my locale-archive went from 102MB down to 3.4MB
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You can first remove all unneeded locales by doing:
$localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs localedef --delete-from-archive
Where ^en can be replaced by the locale you wish to keep
Then
$build-locale-archive
If this gives you an error similar to
$build-locale-archive
/usr/sbin/build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
Then try this
$mv /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
$build-locale-archive
If that still fails, check your version. According to this page newer versions don't have the necessary files to rebuild the archive in order to save space. You'll need to run
yum reinstall glibc-common
In later releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you may use dnf, a similar application.
edited May 9 '16 at 23:32
Thomas Dickey
52.8k597170
answered Sep 9 '13 at 23:06
Joel TaylorJoel Taylor
743413
3
I noticed though that I loss my ssh connection to the host when I executebuild-locale-archive... any way of preventing this?
– Red Cricket
Sep 10 '13 at 22:23
2
I'd be careful attempting this. Broke my CentOS server and took me 30 mins to figure out a solution. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246705/…
– PJ Brunet
Dec 1 '15 at 23:02
dnf in rhel??? Surely you mean yum ;-)
– Dani_l
May 7 '16 at 13:53
add a comment |
You can first remove all unneeded locales by doing:
$localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs localedef --delete-from-archive
Where ^en can be replaced by the locale you wish to keep
Then
$build-locale-archive
If this gives you an error similar to
$build-locale-archive
/usr/sbin/build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
Then try this
$mv /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
$build-locale-archive
If that still fails, check your version. According to this page newer versions don't have the necessary files to rebuild the archive in order to save space. You'll need to run
yum reinstall glibc-common
In later releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you may use dnf, a similar application.
edited May 9 '16 at 23:32
Thomas Dickey
52.8k597170
answered Sep 9 '13 at 23:06
Joel TaylorJoel Taylor
743413
3
I noticed though that I loss my ssh connection to the host when I executebuild-locale-archive... any way of preventing this?
– Red Cricket
Sep 10 '13 at 22:23
2
I'd be careful attempting this. Broke my CentOS server and took me 30 mins to figure out a solution. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246705/…
– PJ Brunet
Dec 1 '15 at 23:02
dnf in rhel??? Surely you mean yum ;-)
– Dani_l
May 7 '16 at 13:53
add a comment |
You can first remove all unneeded locales by doing:
$localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs localedef --delete-from-archive
Where ^en can be replaced by the locale you wish to keep
Then
$build-locale-archive
If this gives you an error similar to
$build-locale-archive
/usr/sbin/build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
Then try this
$mv /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
$build-locale-archive
If that still fails, check your version. According to this page newer versions don't have the necessary files to rebuild the archive in order to save space. You'll need to run
yum reinstall glibc-common
In later releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you may use dnf, a similar application.
edited May 9 '16 at 23:32
Thomas Dickey
52.8k597170
answered Sep 9 '13 at 23:06
Joel TaylorJoel Taylor
743413
You can first remove all unneeded locales by doing:
$localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs localedef --delete-from-archive
Where ^en can be replaced by the locale you wish to keep
Then
$build-locale-archive
If this gives you an error similar to
$build-locale-archive
/usr/sbin/build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
Then try this
$mv /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
$build-locale-archive
If that still fails, check your version. According to this page newer versions don't have the necessary files to rebuild the archive in order to save space. You'll need to run
yum reinstall glibc-common
In later releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you may use dnf, a similar application.
edited May 9 '16 at 23:32
Thomas Dickey
52.8k597170
answered Sep 9 '13 at 23:06
Joel TaylorJoel Taylor
743413
edited May 9 '16 at 23:32
Thomas Dickey
52.8k597170
edited May 9 '16 at 23:32
Thomas Dickey
52.8k597170
edited May 9 '16 at 23:32
Thomas Dickey
52.8k597170
52.8k597170
answered Sep 9 '13 at 23:06
Joel TaylorJoel Taylor
743413
answered Sep 9 '13 at 23:06
Joel TaylorJoel Taylor
743413
answered Sep 9 '13 at 23:06
Joel TaylorJoel Taylor
743413
743413
3
I noticed though that I loss my ssh connection to the host when I executebuild-locale-archive... any way of preventing this?
– Red Cricket
Sep 10 '13 at 22:23
2
I'd be careful attempting this. Broke my CentOS server and took me 30 mins to figure out a solution. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246705/…
– PJ Brunet
Dec 1 '15 at 23:02
dnf in rhel??? Surely you mean yum ;-)
– Dani_l
May 7 '16 at 13:53
add a comment |
3
I noticed though that I loss my ssh connection to the host when I executebuild-locale-archive... any way of preventing this?
– Red Cricket
Sep 10 '13 at 22:23
2
I'd be careful attempting this. Broke my CentOS server and took me 30 mins to figure out a solution. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246705/…
– PJ Brunet
Dec 1 '15 at 23:02
dnf in rhel??? Surely you mean yum ;-)
– Dani_l
May 7 '16 at 13:53
3
3
I noticed though that I loss my ssh connection to the host when I execute
build-locale-archive ... any way of preventing this?– Red Cricket
Sep 10 '13 at 22:23
I noticed though that I loss my ssh connection to the host when I execute
build-locale-archive ... any way of preventing this?– Red Cricket
Sep 10 '13 at 22:23
2
2
I'd be careful attempting this. Broke my CentOS server and took me 30 mins to figure out a solution. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246705/…
– PJ Brunet
Dec 1 '15 at 23:02
I'd be careful attempting this. Broke my CentOS server and took me 30 mins to figure out a solution. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246705/…
– PJ Brunet
Dec 1 '15 at 23:02
dnf in rhel??? Surely you mean yum ;-)
– Dani_l
May 7 '16 at 13:53
dnf in rhel??? Surely you mean yum ;-)
– Dani_l
May 7 '16 at 13:53
add a comment |
On Amazon Linux
Delete the unused archives from the locale-archive. This command deletes all except the ones beginning with en.
localedef --delete-from-archive $(localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs)
Copy the locale-archive (with removed locales) file to be the new locale-archive.tmpl file
cp /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
Run build-locale-archive
build-locale-archive
Note: If you run build-locale-archive it zeros out the .tmpl file after each run and when you run it again you will see the error:
build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
You can get a copy of the locale-archive.tmpl file either by copying the current locale-archive to locale-archive.tmpl or by downloading and unpacking glibc-common. If you use the default locale-archive.tmpl file from the glibc-common RPM and run build-locale-archive against it, it will create a full (~102MB) locale-archive. You need to repeat the above steps to get the smaller size archive.
In the above case deleting all locales except the en_* ones my locale-archive went from 102MB down to 3.4MB
answered 9 mins ago
James McDonaldJames McDonald
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On Amazon Linux
Delete the unused archives from the locale-archive. This command deletes all except the ones beginning with en.
localedef --delete-from-archive $(localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs)
Copy the locale-archive (with removed locales) file to be the new locale-archive.tmpl file
cp /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
Run build-locale-archive
build-locale-archive
Note: If you run build-locale-archive it zeros out the .tmpl file after each run and when you run it again you will see the error:
build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
You can get a copy of the locale-archive.tmpl file either by copying the current locale-archive to locale-archive.tmpl or by downloading and unpacking glibc-common. If you use the default locale-archive.tmpl file from the glibc-common RPM and run build-locale-archive against it, it will create a full (~102MB) locale-archive. You need to repeat the above steps to get the smaller size archive.
In the above case deleting all locales except the en_* ones my locale-archive went from 102MB down to 3.4MB
answered 9 mins ago
James McDonaldJames McDonald
1
New contributor
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On Amazon Linux
Delete the unused archives from the locale-archive. This command deletes all except the ones beginning with en.
localedef --delete-from-archive $(localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs)
Copy the locale-archive (with removed locales) file to be the new locale-archive.tmpl file
cp /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
Run build-locale-archive
build-locale-archive
Note: If you run build-locale-archive it zeros out the .tmpl file after each run and when you run it again you will see the error:
build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
You can get a copy of the locale-archive.tmpl file either by copying the current locale-archive to locale-archive.tmpl or by downloading and unpacking glibc-common. If you use the default locale-archive.tmpl file from the glibc-common RPM and run build-locale-archive against it, it will create a full (~102MB) locale-archive. You need to repeat the above steps to get the smaller size archive.
In the above case deleting all locales except the en_* ones my locale-archive went from 102MB down to 3.4MB
answered 9 mins ago
James McDonaldJames McDonald
1
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James McDonald is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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On Amazon Linux
Delete the unused archives from the locale-archive. This command deletes all except the ones beginning with en.
localedef --delete-from-archive $(localedef --list-archive | grep -v -i ^en | xargs)
Copy the locale-archive (with removed locales) file to be the new locale-archive.tmpl file
cp /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
Run build-locale-archive
build-locale-archive
Note: If you run build-locale-archive it zeros out the .tmpl file after each run and when you run it again you will see the error:
build-locale-archive: cannot read archive header
You can get a copy of the locale-archive.tmpl file either by copying the current locale-archive to locale-archive.tmpl or by downloading and unpacking glibc-common. If you use the default locale-archive.tmpl file from the glibc-common RPM and run build-locale-archive against it, it will create a full (~102MB) locale-archive. You need to repeat the above steps to get the smaller size archive.
In the above case deleting all locales except the en_* ones my locale-archive went from 102MB down to 3.4MB
answered 9 mins ago
James McDonaldJames McDonald
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