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

[Ramnarayan.K]

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

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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