how much disk space do i need for FC1?

Sturla Holm Hansen sturlahh at online.no
Wed Jan 21 16:55:29 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:03, 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?
> 
> I really don't get it. Maybe i did something wrong at install time,
> however i could uninstall some useless (to me) packages with synaptic,
> and really made no difference (freed 64 megs 'only').
> 
> E.
> 
I usually land on just over 2GB for a clean install, I use custom and
installs the packages I need, but I install both gnome, kde,
admin-tools, programming tools, openoffice....
Don't know how much you'll land at if installing everything, but what
use seems veird to me...

Sturla





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