how much disk space do i need for FC1?
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Tue Jan 20 10:45:10 UTC 2004
Am Di, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Emiliano Brunetti um 11:31:
> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:14, leam wrote:
> > Emiliano Brunetti wrote:
> > > Trying to get to work kpackage (no luck!) i realized that on my system
> > > FC1 is really *huge*.
> > >
> > > [ian at brunettie ian]$ df -h
> > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda3 2.3G 1.6G 626M 72% /
> > > none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
> > > /dev/hda7 6.4G 4.2G 1.9G 69% /usr
> > >
> > >
> > > Isn't it a bit too much 1.6 GB on root and 4.2 Gb on /usr? This is a
> > > desktop install, nothing special. Is it supposed to be so large?
>
> > That's sounds about right if you install everything. A minimal install
> > is ~500 M. Since you have no /var your logs and packages are kept in /.
> > So might your MySQL data and a bunch of other things. /usr/is big
> > because that's where most everything goes anyway.
>
> I know this. My point was that i already uninstalled all that i could,
> and still the whole system appears to be quite large.
>
> > Look for duplication of packages and eliminate the ones you don't need.
> > For example, if you use vi, delete all the emacs stuff. Whicher browser
> > you use, delete the others. If you're not using a database package,
> > delete them.
>
> Done already. ;) I don't even have kernel sources...now i don't know
> what to strip. ;)
>
> E.
How many packages have you installed?
$ rpm -qa | wc -l --> prints out number
Did you install KDE and Gnome? Normally you need only one of them, your
favourite one.
Alexander
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