X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_SPAMHAUS_DROP,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Received: by 10.220.40.135 with SMTP id k7mr6761603vce.12.1359602089071; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:14:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5109E1A7.7050005@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:14:47 -0500 From: ping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: cygwin:the /usr/share directory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com hi experts: I'm recently running out of disk and , it looks simply the /usr/share occupies around 5G . [ping AT 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? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple