For the fun of it: how big is your distro installation?

[rado84]

As I said: just for the fun of it to compare distro sizes and I'm not talking about the DVD installer, I'm talking about the size of your entire system that you're currently using. Or the size of the whole root, if you will.
A few minutes ago mine became the smallest I've ever had: 15.9 GB. Only last year it used to be nearly 50 GB.

 

[craigevil]

Disk (/): 190.41 GiB / 915.32 GiB (21%) - ext4
But most of that is media, ebooks 83.4 GiB, Audiobooks 32.4 GiB, Music 8.4 GiB, Videos 27.3 GiB, = 151.5GB. So 39.5GB is other files in my /home and /root since I have everything on one partition.

Packages: 2788 (dpkg), 34 (flatpak), 8 (snap)

 

[theLegionWithin]

72.3gb. only like 15% used out of 1tb if I include home though so I havent ever attempted to optimize it. there's basically no point.

 

[osprey]

That's an attractive output of the duf program @craigevil , so thanks for that one. Wasn't familiar with duf. Here's an output from the dysk program for the relevant details on this machine:

On the number of installed packages on this debian system:

[ben@min ~]$ dpkg -l | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}' | wc -l
2264

 

[MikeRocor]

I have about 147 GB of static data files (pictures, music, OS images for my smartphone, etc) but aside from that the whole mess is about 3 GB, 1.2 GB of which is my email (It's been years since I cleaned out my email). It's a drop in the bucket compared to the 4 TB disk capacity.

 

[Deleted member 210773]

I have installed three Linux distributions,
below is the screenshot of my hard disk /dev/sda divided into three partitions (trial boot)

 

[WinterOwl]

Mine is 12G. Though, to be fair, I did a fresh installation of Linux Mint 21.3 quite recently lol.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I reinstalled system yesterday due to issues hard to diagnose, after installing all the essentials it's now taking 20 GB

edit:
@KGIII
For some reason my screenshot isn't visible, any idea why?

 

[kc1di]

My whole system including home etc = 18.6 Gbs. But that is subject to change daily. I do try to keep the system clean.

 

[Thunderpants]

According to gparted:
Xubuntu + applications, 42.97GB used.
Second data SSD, 60.76GB used.
Media files are on a separate samba server PC, about 2.5TB used.

 

[MikeWalsh]

Hmm.....

Where to start?

My OS partition (sda2) is 350GB in size - 71 GB used at present. This comprises 14 Puppy 'frugal' installs, each in their own separate sub-directory.....along with associated development SFS packages for each one, and various 'no-arch' system utilities shared between all.

Sda3 is my 'Data' partition - 480 GB in size. Portable-WINE packages, movies, portable apps (hundreds of 'em!), 'local' backups (transferred to external disk once a fortnight), a couple of 'chroot' jails, a collection of AppImages, etc, etc. Externally-linked 'shared' YAD, ffmpeg & Java packages; update once, new version available to all Puppies. 280GB used ATM.

Sdb1 - second internal drive - 1TB. Assorted Puppy files of ALL kinds, collected over more than a decade. Around 375GB in use at present.

Sdb2 - 1.5TB. Lots of app databases'n'stuff for apps like the Flightgear flight simulator (this requires a 'data' directory of some 6.5 GB, so this sits externally, sym-linked into the Flightgear 'portable' at the expected locations. Lots & lots of Puppy development packages in various stages of finalization. Also contains my Flashpoint Infinity install of some 4.7 GB.

Lots more movies, image collections & music collections.....too many to mention, really. 680GB presently in use.

It's a right "dog's dinner" ( ).....but it all seems to function amazingly well.


Mike.

 

[MikeRocor]

I checked out a USB stick that I installed a few weeks ago. It's got the whole mess from my daily driver except for the hundred and forty-some GB of static data and the one-point-something GB of email:

That doesn't show the tiny EFI partition on sdb2, which is just under 8 MB. sda on this machine is an old Windows 10 installation.

 

[rado84]

By the looks if most people never delete their package managers' cache...

 

[Condobloke]

22.00 + 6.8 = 28GB

Drive Size : 256GB

 

[gvisoc]

As I said: just for the fun of it to compare distro sizes and I'm not talking about the DVD installer, I'm talking about the size of your entire system that you're currently using. Or the size of the whole root, if you will.
A few minutes ago mine became the smallest I've ever had: 15.9 GB. Only last year it used to be nearly 50 GB.

It's 299 541 GB out of 2 TB.

Why?

• I have all dependencies to develop KDE applications in ~, currently built, for a dying pet project.
• A few un-pruned container images from so many other dead pet projects
• Several Qemu VMs
• A few games on Steam
• A swap file as I use hibernation, and my laptop has 64 GB RAM

EDIT: 299 GB was ~.

 

[gvisoc]

The tiny-est is probably 8 GB, a fresh install of Fedora 42 on a desktop computer that I fixed after frying half its RAM sockets.

 

[Thunderpants]

Virtualbox VMs stored in the home directory also puffs up the measurement.

 

[Condobloke]

on a desktop computer that I fixed after frying half its RAM sockets.

I am glad I am not the only one to suffer from monumental screw ups

 

[gvisoc]

Virtualbox VMs stored in the home directory also puffs up the measurement.

In my case they are all QEMU/KVM, stored in /var/lib

 

[gvisoc]

I am glad I am not the only one to suffer from monumental screw ups

Actually I think it was a screw that fell off the tip of my screwdriver and got all bouncy between two RAM modules and the mobo when I was installing it on a new case.

So that was more like a screw-down (?)