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Re: cygwin:the /usr/share directory
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:21:57 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygwin:the /usr/share directory
- References: <5109E1A7.7050005@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 1/30/2013 10:14 PM, ping wrote:
hi experts:
I'm recently running out of disk and , it looks simply the /usr/share
occupies around 5G .
[ping@ping-new-laptop usr]$ du -sh ./share/
4.4G ./share/
I'm thinking to remove this directory to release some space. but not sure if
this will affect the whole cygwin from running properly.
or, if I can remove part of the contents, what is the minimum packages that
I need to keep there?
Mine is less than .5G so you apparently have allot more packages installed
than I do (or you have one/some that generate allot more info in there).
I'd recommend removing packages you're not using before trying to clean
out any corresponding directories. Doing a "du -sh ./share/*" should
give you a good overview of which directories contain the most stuff and
help you target which packages you may consider removing.
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Larry
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