what to delete in /usr

[Chris Aitken]

David Thornton wrote:

> caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org wrote:
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>> 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...
>> Chris
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> Oh and you could just use find to find large files that might give you 
> good bang for your buck.
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> find /usr -size +1000k

That's a handy command -- thanks. I found vmware (which I'm not using). 
I deleted all related files, as root,  with rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware/*

That freed up another 3% to bring /usr down to 93%.

Chris

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