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grabbing a bit of space
Posted by LesleyB on Tue 18 Aug 2009 at 13:29
I didn't LVM a recent install and my /usr partiton was filling up.
Usingdc du -ch --max-depth=1 I was able to identify /usr/share/ and /usr/share/doc as using the largest amount of disk space.
I moved /usr/share/doc, /usr/share/doc-base and /usr/share/gtk-doc to /usr/local/share and set links to those directories in /usr/share/. I have checked with a removal of one doc package and re-install. The new directory structure seemed to work.
I've regained nearly 1GB of disk pace in my /usr partition.
All I can do is empirically test the operation of this directory structure mod (and read the appropriate Debian documentation to find out how safe this mod is ) but I suspect I will now always hive off /usr/share/ and /usr/src to their own partitions.
Regards
L.
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I moved /usr/share/doc, /usr/share/doc-base and /usr/share/gtk-doc to /usr/local/share and set links to those directories in /usr/share/. I have checked with a removal of one doc package and re-install. The new directory structure seemed to work.
I've regained nearly 1GB of disk pace in my /usr partition.
All I can do is empirically test the operation of this directory structure mod (and read the appropriate Debian documentation to find out how safe this mod is ) but I suspect I will now always hive off /usr/share/ and /usr/src to their own partitions.
Regards
L.
Comments on this Entry
First, a typo in your text : it is df and not dc :p
To free space in /usr/share/ I recently discovered "localepurge", which freed > 50MB
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/localepurge
To free space in /usr/share/ I recently discovered "localepurge", which freed > 50MB
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/localepurge
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I think it is du (which summarizes space usage of each file), not df (which reports space usage of a whole file system).
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lol, indeed... :)
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Thank you both for pointing that typo out. Now corrected. ^_^
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Posted by Anonymous (187.23.xx.xx) on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 23:00
You can remove /usr/share/doc/* and packages should work normally.
If you find some problem, then there is a bug in the package that needs its document files to run.
If you find some problem, then there is a bug in the package that needs its document files to run.
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