Linux Space

[Brian Densmore]

My post on this never seems to have showed up.
I'm using 400 MB on my laptop with the new debian
install. That includes X,xfce,mozilla,nedit and some
debian documentation. I expect it to go up to about 
800 MB once I install OO and some other software.
Now if I can only remember where to configure the
interrupts for the sound card. I knew this once.

And a question for the debian folks. I added some
ftp/http locations to my apt-get configuration file
and now when I call apt-get it goes out and finds
the files I'm looking for (most of the time). But,
I get several errors saying this or that directory
or file doesn't exist. How do I get rid of them, and
how do I know which servers have which directories?

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo J Mauler [mailto:webgiant at juno.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:13 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Linux Space
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:46:06 -0600 Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at comcast.net>
> writes:
> > Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > 
> > > How much HD space does your favorite Linux distro take?
> > >
> > > Looks like Mandrake 9.2 with some bells and whistles is 
> > > using 2.6G. 3.5 available on my laptop....
> > 
> > 1.38GB on my Morphix laptop install.  I intend to pare it 
> > down some.
> 
> I stuck Slackware 9.1 on my system using 1.2GB.  Now, thats with X but
> without GNOME or KDE.  I did include all the development tools but not
> the kernel source (2.4.22).  I left out Mozilla and Netscape too,
> figuring either one was too big for the system resources.
> 
> Even with a swap partition I still had 1.8GB free for the system, and
> there's 527MB free for anything else.
> 
> When I plan on a machine being a general purpose do-a-lot machine, I
> allocate at least 2GB for /usr, 50MB for /boot (too much but still
> small), and 1GB for / if I'm going to create a separate /home 
> directory. 
> I usually don't bother with a /var for a personal use machine, as once
> you pull /usr and /home out of /, whatever is in / ends up taking less
> than 10% of the space.
> 
> Most distros will do a nearly full install into 2GB /usr.
> 
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