what to delete in /usr

[Tom Legrady]

In theory, /usr contains the software you run, and the man pages, and  
other related stuff ... none of which changes. In some business  
environments, /usr is mounted read-only. It could even be a CD. So  
whether it is 1% full or 99% full shouldn't matter. At least, until  
you want to install more software

What I don't see here is /tmp. Is it just part of /? is it a symbolic  
link to /usr/tmp?

How many programs were you running at the time? OOo is a memory hog.  
How much RAM do you have?

On 4-Feb-06, at 6:07 PM, caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org wrote:

> Howard Gibson writes:
>> On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:38:34 -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]$
>> Chris,    I believe /dev/shm is your swap partition.  When that  
>> gets full, you are toast.
>
> But it's completely empty. 0% is being used...
>>    You need more RAM.
>
> Why?
>>    Don't worry about /usr.
>
> Well, something's slowing my system -- and I've found in the past  
> when partitions get full and I free space in them then the machine  
> runs better. Surely a 97% full partition is something to worry  
> about -- no?
> Chris
> <snip>
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