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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:21:57 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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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 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?

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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