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

[Carthik Sharma]

If you're thinking of doing away with /usr - don't. At least /usr/lib/
will make sure you regret it.
/usr/local is expendable if you dont have any software installed in it.
/usr/share has icons, fonts, and a whole lot of other things that you need.
/usr/bin and /usr/sbin are essential too.

Just a thought!

__ Carthik.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Srihari k <harisulthan at gmail.com> wrote:
> @narendra
> interesting experiment..
>  *Rename  your /usr* and give it a try.
> I am going to do that once i get to my computer.
>
>
>
> On 25/05/2010, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> This is how my ubuntu's /usr looks like
>>>
>>> $ du --si --max-depth=1 /usr
>>> 247M    /usr/src
>>> 2.4G    /usr/lib
>>> 13k     /usr/lib32
>>> 239M    /usr/local
>>> 400M    /usr/bin
>>> 23M     /usr/include
>>> 881k    /usr/i486-linux-gnu
>>> 1.9M    /usr/games
>>> 40M     /usr/sbin
>>> 4.1G    /usr/share
>>> 95k     /usr/lib64
>>> 7.3G    /usr
>>
>> **
>> thanks so am not too bad ;-) but need to investigate why icons is 1.9 GB
>> hmmm
>>
>> also thanks for the command will use that now and this is what it
>> looks like again
>> -$ du --si --max-depth=1 /usr
>> 463M  /usr/bin
>> 48M   /usr/include
>> 152k  /usr/X11R6
>> 1.6M  /usr/local
>> 2.7G  /usr/lib
>> 95k   /usr/lib64
>> 6.1G  /usr/share
>> 637M  /usr/src
>> 13k   /usr/man
>> 37M   /usr/sbin
>> 3.9M  /usr/games
>> 10G   /usr
>>
>>
>> ram
>>
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