Trying to get to work kpackage (no luck!) i realized that on my system FC1 is really *huge*. [ian@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.

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:14, leam wrote: > Emiliano Brunetti wrote: > > Trying to get to work kpackage (no luck!) i realized that on my system > > FC1 is really *huge*. > > > > [ian@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? > That's sounds about right if you install everything. A minimal install > is ~500 M. Since you have no /var your logs and packages are kept in /. > So might your MySQL data and a bunch of other things. /usr/is big > because that's where most everything goes anyway. I know this. My point was that i already uninstalled all that i could, and still the whole system appears to be quite large. > Look for duplication of packages and eliminate the ones you don't need. > For example, if you use vi, delete all the emacs stuff. Whicher browser > you use, delete the others. If you're not using a database package, > delete them. Done already. ;) I don't even have kernel sources...now i don't know what to strip. ;) E.

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:45, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Emiliano Brunetti um 11:31: > > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:14, leam wrote: > > > Emiliano Brunetti wrote: > > > > Trying to get to work kpackage (no luck!) i realized that on my system > > > > FC1 is really *huge*. > > > > > > > > [ian@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? > > > > > That's sounds about right if you install everything. A minimal install > > > is ~500 M. Since you have no /var your logs and packages are kept in /. > > > So might your MySQL data and a bunch of other things. /usr/is big > > > because that's where most everything goes anyway. > > > > I know this. My point was that i already uninstalled all that i could, > > and still the whole system appears to be quite large. [snip] > > How many packages have you installed? > > $ rpm -qa | wc -l --> prints out number > > Did you install KDE and Gnome? Normally you need only one of them, your > favourite one. I tried to keep gnome as little as possible, since i like KDE. At the same time, i do need some basic gnome stuff for all those system administration tools that are gnome based. Right now i have 747 packages, probably too many. But it is difficult for me to decide even where to look at in order to reduce them. E.

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:45, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Emiliano Brunetti um 11:31: > > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:14, leam wrote: > > > Emiliano Brunetti wrote: > > > > Trying to get to work kpackage (no luck!) i realized that on my > system > > > > FC1 is really *huge*. > > > > > > > > [ian@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? > > > > > That's sounds about right if you install everything. A minimal > install > > > is ~500 M. Since you have no /var your logs and packages are kept in > /. > > > So might your MySQL data and a bunch of other things. /usr/is big > > > because that's where most everything goes anyway. > > > > I know this. My point was that i already uninstalled all that i could, > > and still the whole system appears to be quite large. [snip] > > How many packages have you installed? > > $ rpm -qa | wc -l --> prints out number > > Did you install KDE and Gnome? Normally you need only one of them, your > favourite one. I tried to keep gnome as little as possible, since i like KDE. At the same time, i do need some basic gnome stuff for all those system administration tools that are gnome based. Right now i have 747 packages, probably too many. But it is difficult for me to decide even where to look at in order to reduce them. E. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Try doing the inverse. Remove kde, leave gnome, as far as I remember, some gnome stuff is needed for redhat-config-*. (Oh yes, and you can get used to gnome as I did) -- []s Alexandre Ganso

just FYI, FC2-test1 does not have that marvelous collection of /usr/bin/redhat-config-* utilities. they've been renamed to system-config-*. i'm not sure what the consequences of that is, just thought i'd point it out.