On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate <narendra.diw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am just reading the latest DW weekly and in it a interview they say that > deleting the contents of /usr directory will give the base system as was > installed or something close to it. > > I just checked my /usr and ITS BIG. 1.8GB and 115000 files in it. I do not > have too many programs installed, have only one user on the system and am > very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.
You have Ubuntu desktop system installed right? That is approx 1500 packages installed. In terms of number of programs (apps/libs etc) I would say that is at least 800. 1.8G is not 'a lot of space'. A desktop install for Ubuntu takes around 2 GB total. Consider what all applications you get in base install - browser, IM, email, media players, games, complete office suite, CD/DVD burning tool, photo manager, scanning/printing out of box, PDF reader, torrent client. Do you still think you are wasting too much space? :-) By the way, number of users does not affect the content in /usr. Users have their own content in /home. > > What will happen if I decide to delete my the contents of the /usr dir? Now > i know i will lose the user installed apps. What else will happen? Will the > sys be still bootable and importantly usable? bootable -> perhaps usable (from a normal users point of view) -> no /usr contains data related to almost 95% of applications. So if you delete the content try imagining what will be state of the machine. I am not sure why DW weekly gave advice about deleting the data form this directory. By the way what is DW weekly? Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in