Re: Still trying to reduce the size of /, now that I have the bit between my teeth....

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Hi Lisi!

Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi:
> I still have two of the already suggested things to try, but meanwhile
> my /usr is 3.7G, and my /, of which it forms part, is 4.7G.  This
> seems slightly disproportionate.  How can I find out what is actually
> needed - or even, used - in /usr?

No, this seems just about right for me. At least for a desktop. /usr 
carriers all software installed by the package manager that is *not* 
required for booting. I.e. it usually contains a lot more as stored in sub 
directories of / directly. And when /var isn´t that large the proportions 
you noted do not surprise me a bit.

Look at

merkaba:~> LANG=C du -schx /usr /var
8.9G    /usr
1.8G    /var
11G     total
merkaba:~> LANG=C du -schx /        
11G     /
11G     total

My / basically consists of /usr and /var. The other stuff is negligible.

As for saving space, have a look at:

- debfoster
- deborphan
- aptitude in interactive mode under "obsolete / local" packages
- du -sch /usr/local/* | egrep "[0-9](M|G)" | sort -rh

and the other suggestions given.

Ciao,
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