On 2023-08-15, Daniele B. <my2...@has.im> wrote: > --MP_/XGuIkAHQX40NmJKN5BO9ZNo > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > About /usr/bin > > MrCleaner# pwd > /usr/bin > MrCleaner# ls -lsahS > /usr/bin-ls > > Attaching the bin-ls output, thanks > > > -- Daniele Bonini > > > Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > >> On 2023-08-15, Daniele B. <my2...@has.im> wrote: >> > >> > I just completed to clean my system looking sysclean output on a >> > spare stick. I gained something mostly from /usr/lib but neither a >> > lot of stuff. >> > As someone has shared with me some data, its amd64 partition size >> > I want to show you this from my *cleaned* system: >> > >> > MrCleaner# pwd >> > /usr >> > MrCleaner# du -h -d 1 >> > 235M ./lib >> > 629M ./bin >> >> This is /usr/bin? Something seems wrong, this should be more like >> 250M. > > > --MP_/XGuIkAHQX40NmJKN5BO9ZNo > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=bin-ls.txt > > total 1288488 > 165056 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 80.5M Mar 25 17:15 c++ > 165056 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 80.5M Mar 25 17:15 cc > 165056 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 80.5M Mar 25 17:15 clang > 165056 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 80.5M Mar 25 17:15 clang++ > 165056 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 80.5M Mar 25 17:15 clang-cpp
those should be hardlinks > 102432 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 50.0M Mar 25 17:15 ld > 102432 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 50.0M Mar 25 17:15 ld.lld and those that's 370MB of unnecessary space use right there. I guess you might have copied files around which resulted in splitting the hardlinks off to separate copies.
