how much disk space do i need for FC1?
Emiliano Brunetti
emiliano_brunetti at idg.it
Tue Jan 20 12:00:37 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:45, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 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.
[snip]
>
> 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.
I tried to keep gnome as little as possible, since i like KDE. At the
same time, i do need some basic gnome stuff for all those system
administration tools that are gnome based. Right now i have 747
packages, probably too many. But it is difficult for me to decide even
where to look at in order to reduce them.
E.
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