Re: Why so big(2)

[Mike McGuire <mjm19@po.cwru.edu>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
> /dev/hda2             703M  574M   93M  86% /
> du -m /usr/        399
> du -m /usr/src/     173
> du -m /usr/share    148
> 
> du -m /home     120
> 
> I don't have anything other than samba and python installed.  How can
> /usr/share be so big?
>
> ...
>
> tetex-base install
> tetex-bin install
> tetex-lib install

This stuff is pretty huge, and you probably don't need it. (Anybody 
know a reason? And one good enough to have it installed by default, 
if that's the case?) Anyway, on my box:

spoon:~# du -s /usr/share/* | sort -nr | head -n 10     <-- (top 10!)
66956   /usr/share/texmf            <-- (created by tetex on install)
48076   /usr/share/doc
17064   /usr/share/locale
12184   /usr/share/man
10316   /usr/share/lyx              <-- (my reason for keeping tetex)
7732    /usr/share/terminfo
6876    /usr/share/i18n
6616    /usr/share/perl
5128    /usr/share/games
5028    /usr/share/zoneinfo

...and tetex-base itself is about 30MB. So you'd probably free another 
100MB if you can't find a reason to keep it. The other big stuff in 
/usr/share is more or less required- doc, locale, man, terminfo, perl, 
and games of course, for fortune. ;)

HTH,
Mike McGuire