how much disk space do i need for FC1?

[Emiliano Brunetti]

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.