The other day I noticed that my settings directory (/etc) uses over 13 MB of my hard drive. So I wandered which package (I’m using a Debian based package managed system) makes the settings directory grow so large. After a couple of trails and errors I came up with the following sequence of commands:
$ du -h --max-depth=1 /etc 2> /dev/null | egrep '(^[5-9][0-9]{2}K)|M' 692K /etc/X11 672K /etc/acpi 712K /etc/xdg 2.1M /etc/brltty 500K /etc/ssl 528K /etc/mono 20K /etc/NetworkManager 13M /etc $ dpkg -S '/etc/brltty' brltty-x11, brltty: /etc/brltty $ apt-cache show brltty | grep -A5 'Description' Description: Access software for a blind person using a soft braille terminal BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode) for a blind person using a soft braille display. It drives the braille terminal and provides complete screen review functionality. The following display models are supported: * Alva (ABT3xx/Delphi)
Fortunatelly, I’m not blind so I could remove brltty with aptitude which then suggested to remove dependencies, too.
References:
- Regex reference
- Resources for advanced Ubuntu topics, eg. how to remove …-desktop meta packages with apt-get (instead of aptitude), secure networking setup, etc.