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How much space should the OS use up?
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How much space should the OS use up?

drmikedrmike Member
edited September 2011 in Help

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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  • circuscircus Member
    edited September 2011

    mine are around 600-750 megs, I guess it's depend on the template.

    drmike said: I don't think my home boxes running win7 use up a full gig for their windows partition

    I'm pretty sure it is more than that.

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    drmike said: Does that sound right? I don't think my home boxes running win7 use up a full gig for their windows partition.

    Windows 7 uses around 16GB so...

  • I don't think my home boxes running win7 use up a full gig for their windows partition.

    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

    Thanked by 1Infinity
  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    Ouch, I didn't know that 64bit took up 20GB space. I have 64bit Win7 myself.

  • kylixkylix Member
    edited September 2011

    Yesss. 64bit is eating ressources like cookies.

  • drmikedrmike Member
    edited September 2011

    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.

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep
    edited September 2011

    drmike said: 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.

    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.

  • kylixkylix Member
    edited September 2011

    A clean install of Debian 6 32bit came out to be 694megs.

    @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).

  • yomeroyomero Member
    edited September 2011
    $ df -h
    Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/simfs             19G  483M   19G   3% /
    tmpfs                 110M     0  110M   0% /lib/init/rw
    tmpfs                 110M     0  110M   0% /dev/shm
    

    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 :o
    I'm adding that to the list :P

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