How to find out not frequently used package / package with big size?

[Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)]

On Wed, April 29, 2009 05:37, Sundar Nagarajan wrote:
> Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) wrote:
>
>>>
>> Learning something new every day. :-)
>>
>>
>> But what if I mount with noatime?
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>
> If you mount with noatime, .... .... well, then there's no way to do
> this.
>
> Though atime is considered a performance breaker (updates on each access
> - potentially causing writes to the disk for every read from the disk
> cache), I believe the recommendation is to use relatime - which only
> updates the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime.
> This sort of provides a compromise between the *stupid* default
> unix atime and noatime.

This may come as a surprise to you, but I think that you are 100% right.

It's just that I like to tweak, and for my netbook (solid state disk) I
use noatime. I'm special. :-)