Ignore last mail, sent by mistake due to a temporary internet outage ram
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Onkar Shinde <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> You have Ubuntu desktop system installed right? That is approx 1500 >> packages installed. In terms of number of programs (apps/libs etc) I >> would say that is at least 800. >> 1.8G is not 'a lot of space'. A desktop install for Ubuntu takes >> around 2 GB total. Consider what all applications you get in base >> install - browser, IM, email, media players, games, complete office >> suite, CD/DVD burning tool, photo manager, scanning/printing out of >> box, PDF reader, torrent client. Do you still think you are wasting >> too much space? :-) > >> /usr contains data related to almost 95% of applications. So if you >> delete the content try imagining what will be state of the machine. >> I am not sure why DW weekly gave advice about deleting the data form >> this directory. By the way what is DW weekly? > > 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 > > my entire root directory is > /dev/sda7 12G > > am using Ultimate edition 2.5 (based on 9.10) and i laid my hands on > 30 gig of repos so have tonnes installed. > I think in the upgrade will > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
