On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate > <narendra.diw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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? :-)
> /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? Excuse me please the following is my /usr /usr - 9.2 GB /usr/Share - 5.6 GB (of which icons only are 1.9 GB) /usr/lib - 2.5 GB /usr/src - 601 MB my entire root directory is /dev/sda7 12G am using Ultimate edition 2.5 (based on 9.10) and i laid my hands on 30 gig of repos so have tonnes installed. I think in the upgrade will -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in