[ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

[Ramnarayan.K]

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ram

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate
>> <narendra.diwate at 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
>