what to delete in /usr

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:38:34PM -0500, caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Sometimes, now, when I open OpenOffice it hangs my business production 
> computer. I checked for any partition that may be full. I found this: 
> 
> [chris at a800 chris]$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1              1004024    254928    698092  27% /
> /dev/hda3              2016044   1468792    444840  77% /home
> none                    127696         0    127696   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda2              2949060   2698768    100488  97% /usr
> [chris at a800 chris]$ 
> 
> Clearly I need to lighten /usr 's load. What can I delete? The only 
> programs I really use on the computer are Mozilla and OpenOffice but I 
> don't want to delete programs that I don't know what they do or that other 
> programs may rely on... 

What do you have installed?  Ask your package manager I guess.  See what
is big and bloated. :)  Or get a bigger HD.

Len Sorensen
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