On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:27:00PM +0530, Narendra Diwate wrote: > I am just reading the latest DW weekly and in it a interview they say that > deleting the contents of /usr directory will give the base system as was > installed or something close to it. > > I just checked my /usr and ITS BIG. 1.8GB and 115000 files in it. I do not > have too many programs installed, have only one user on the system and am > very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space. > > What will happen if I decide to delete my the contents of the /usr dir? Now > i know i will lose the user installed apps. What else will happen? Will the > sys be still bootable and importantly usable?
Ever tried booting the computer in to 'recovery mode'? AFAIK, if you delete the contents of /usr directory, it will look very much like that (i.e. just the command prompt and a barebones linux install - no graphical stuff) Regards, Nitesh -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in