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muk.li
Asked: 2015-07-10 09:02:59 +0800 CST

How much space is used by a package in rc state?

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If you uninstall a package, but don't purge it, dpkg -l will show it as rc, meaning removed, but config files are left. Is there an easy way to see how much space is still used by such a package?

dpkg

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    The config files should be listed in /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.conffiles. For example, with the dpkg package:

    $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.conffiles 
/etc/alternatives/README
/etc/cron.daily/dpkg
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
/etc/logrotate.d/dpkg

    If there aren't too many files, you can use xargs and du:

    $ xargs -a /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.conffiles du -c
4       /etc/alternatives/README
4       /etc/cron.daily/dpkg
4       /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
4       /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg
16      total

    If there are too many files, you'll see multiple total lines.

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