how much disk space do i need for FC1?

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Tue Jan 20 12:27:18 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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