On Friday 23 September 2011 19:32:52 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > 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.
Thanks, Martin. That is very helpful. I'm falling asleep now - but I'll look at these tomorrow morning. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109232310.46696.lisi.re...@gmail.com
