how much disk space do i need for FC1?

[Alexander Dalloz]

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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