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How much space should the OS use up?
Just curious. My Debian 6 vps after running apt-get clean is using 902megs of hard drive space. (edit: That's the OS, Nginx and MySQL/PHP and a couple of sites.)
That seems high to me, especially since I've used the lowendscript to clean stuff out.
Does that sound right? I don't think my home boxes running win7 use up a full gig for their windows partition.
edit: As an aside, we now have Debian 6.0 32 bit on our OS selections. I had mentioned a while back that we only had 64 bit previously and I had been told that 6.0 was only going to be a 64 bit. Fran mentioned that the 32bit had come out. I don't recall where that posting was.
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mine are around 600-750 megs, I guess it's depend on the template.
I'm pretty sure it is more than that.
Windows 7 uses around 16GB so...
Either you're not running Windows 7 or they're not using 1GB of space ;-)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements
Ouch, I didn't know that 64bit took up 20GB space. I have 64bit Win7 myself.
Yesss. 64bit is eating ressources like cookies.
I strip out a bunch of garbage. Could have sworn that it uses 1.5 gigs actually. Maybe I'm thinking the xp box. I know folks are installed win7 on their eee pc's and those drives are under 16gigs.
edit: A clean install of Debian 6 32bit came out to be 694megs.
Nope, you are definately thinking of another OS. Even a stripped down Windows 7 install definately can't use 1.5gigs. The system folder alone weighs up at 13GB.
@drmike: That should be quite ok.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.html.en
I'm using Debian 6 32bit with Nginx, PHP and MySQL and I'm using about 392 MB of disk space using my cleanup scripts (linked in my sig).
LNMP stack, openVZ. FTW
Looking at the maxexcloo projects, your list of packages seems interesting, 109 packages, I will try that, but I was just scared of removing libraries
Btw, you can remove tcpd, gcc-4.4-base and whiptail. Also, do you run deborphan and localepurge?
I don't
I'm adding that to the list :P