On Sun 25 Aug 2019 at 10:54:45 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 25/08/2019 à 10:06, Hadi Motamedi a écrit : > > On 8/25/19, der.hans <deb-u...@lufthans.com> wrote: > > > > > > du -sh /usr/* > > > > > > That will show you disk usage per directory in /usr/. > > My preferred command is > > du -hxd1 /usr | sort -h > > - ignores other filesystem (e.g. if you mounted something on /usr/local) > - does not ignore "dot" files and directories > - sorts by size for easier reading > > > with "du -sh" , I am able to find big files and try to remove them . > > Be aware that /usr contains mostly files belonging to installed > packages, so you should not remove such files by hand, but remove > unnecessary packages instead. Exceptions are /usr/local and possibly > /usr/src (although the latter should not be used for local > compilation) as the whole /usr should be considered read-only.
This might be awkward if the OP was installing software at the time and things are in a partially installed state. Assuming /usr is a separate partition, a short term fix might be to borrow some space on another partition and move some parts of, say, /usr/share/doc onto it. For example, here are the biggies on this system: 15M /usr/share/doc/sqlite3-doc 30M /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg 35M /usr/share/doc/python2.7 41M /usr/share/doc/python3.5 56M /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common 73M /usr/share/doc/debian-handbook 1.3G /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc 101M /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/fonts 334M /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/generic 844M /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex Then the software installation can be completed, and a decision made on a longer term strategy. Cheers, David.
