Unix and Linux → How Much Disk Space Do You Use?

Well I'm about to redo my computer again. I've been trying keeping Linux off my personal box for the longest time. But since I'm going to be doing a lot of work stuff on my box now, I need to put Linux on it. Since I'm going to have it on my box, I'm going to use it for personal use. I've never used Linux for just personal pleasure. So I'm not sure how much room I'll eventually end up taking. I guess the install is about 2GB and then my tools will be another 1 to 2GB.

How much do you guys actually use (not including the install, tools, or MP3s). I'll be keeping my MP3s on my Windows partition. So I guess I'm looking for program space. I was thinking 6.5GB...but I was debating 8GB and 10GB. To be honest, I would like my XP & .NET partition to have the most space since that's where most of my programs are (yes, no Linux version).

So with that all said, what would you recommend?

well, not a useful answer to you.. but your post made me look at my drive space and I discovered my root partition is nearly full.. eeek.. should have an alert for that..


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 1.9G 1.8G 44M 98% /
/dev/hda1 7.6M 3.9M 3.3M 54% /boot
/dev/hda7 5.6G 2.9G 2.3G 55% /home

/home/hall> df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb6             12103708   3056776   8678004  27% /
/dev/hdb1                 7746      4616      2730  63% /boot
/dev/hda1              2056280    904000   1152280  44% /mnt/windows
/dev/hdb7              7495696   3536108   3959588  48% /mnt/shared
roo:/opt               2995648   1838568   1157080  62% /mnt/roo/opt
roo:/opt2              2499728   2067296    432432  83% /mnt/roo/opt2

I consider myself quite frugal when it comes to disk usage. :)

I have a fairly stripped down linux. In total, it's about 460Meg but it does include all my tools.

bash-2.05a# du -c -m --summarize /usr/local /usr/X11R6 /usr/lib /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/share /var /lib /bin /sbin /boot /etc
341 /usr/local
104 /usr/X11R6
1 /usr/lib
1 /usr/bin
1 /usr/sbin
3 /usr/share
1 /var
1 /lib
1 /bin
2 /sbin
1 /boot
4 /etc
456 total

The majority of my tools live in /usr/local.

I squeezed RH 7.3 on 2GB of space, not counting swap, but it's like 94% up.

/dev/hda2 2006128 1637420 266800 86% /
/dev/hda1 23393 5762 16423 26% /boot
/dev/hdb2 1418776 142660 1204044 11% /home
none 95604 0 95604 0% /dev/shm
//daisy/artemis 2811328 1787584 1023744 64% /mnt/daisy/artemis
//daisy/D$ 1397600 899840 497760 65% /mnt/daisy/storage
//leapfrog/storage 1980288 1853888 126400 94% /mnt/leapfrog/storage
//leapfrog/phaedra 1980288 1853888 126400 94% /mnt/leapfrog/phaedra

40gig hd

I keep my mp3's on a fat32 part (not currrently mounted) for sharing mp3's betweem my dual booting OS. I keep a lot of crap in /home. I really should clean it out.....

That said I have a lot of proggies installed on /usr. It is 10 gigs, but for me that is pretty much overkill as seen by the use %.

df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde3 3043676 592092 2451584 20% /
tmpfs 1024 164 860 17% /mnt/.init.d
/dev/hde5 3043648 664944 2378704 22% /var
/dev/hde6 10208636 3128184 7080452 31% /usr
/dev/hde7 22088704 15002716 7085988 68% /home

Thanks guys. It looks like 6.5GB should be enough. I guess that's about 2GB of crap I can put on after the installation and all of my tools.

Duel booting on a 17 GB drive...

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$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              12G  4.6G  6.5G  42% /
/dev/sda1             4.9G  3.7G  1.2G  75% /mnt/windows

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Fresh install of Gentoo...:)

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Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             5.9G  1.6G  4.0G  28% /
tmpfs                 1.0M  144K  880K  15% /mnt/.init.d
/dev/sda1              38M  5.8M   30M  16% /boot
/dev/sda3             1.4G  122M  1.2G   9% /var
/dev/sda6             8.2G   33M  7.7G   1% /home
/dev/sdc1              17G  3.0G   13G  18% /d
//10.3.1.3/Apps        56G   39G   17G  70% /a
//10.3.1.3/Games       43G   27G   16G  63% /b

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I haven't had time to make the mount points all nice yet, but /d is my XP drive, /a is mounted from my File server (Apps) and /b is also mounted from my File server (Games) :)

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joel@milo:~$df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              72G   44G   24G  64% /
/dev/hda1              45M  6.7M   36M  16% /boot
joel@milo:~$

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... I don't have much mounted :D. Man, I need to clean up my disk.

said by DA OH:

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/d is my XP drive

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Ahhh did I say XP? I meant /d is my fat32 share drive, with MP3's on it.

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joel@milo:~$df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              72G   29G   39G  42% /
/dev/hda1              45M  6.7M   36M  16% /boot
joel@milo:~$

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Much better....

said by DA OH:

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said by DA OH:

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/d is my XP drive

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Ahhh did I say XP? I meant /d is my fat32 share drive, with MP3's on it.

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A-HA! busted! :P

said by subcultured:

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said by DA OH:

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said by DA OH:

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/d is my XP drive

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Ahhh did I say XP? I meant /d is my fat32 share drive, with MP3's on it.

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A-HA! busted! :P

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OK...OK...My laptop Dual boots XP and Gentoo, but right now it's booted into XP...:) The above post comes from my main workstation which also dual boots Gentoo and XP, but it is currently booted into Gentoo...(That's the one I am watching Fight Club on now) The /d partition holds all my MP3's...

bash-2.05a$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              11G  7.2G  3.6G  67% /
tmpfs                 1.0M  172K  852K  17% /mnt/.init.d
/dev/hda1             6.9G  2.5G  4.0G  39% /vmware2
bash-2.05a$

I use a 20GB drive, but my Gentoo server is on a 1GB drive. I used up 750MB of it. I picked up a 640MB drive off ebay for it for more space.
Edit: Had to format the columned output -_-

[text was edited by author 2002-09-01 10:17:35]

about 84 gigs total

Here's my usage on a single user (not including root) system:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             1.2G  349M  838M  30% /
none                  251M     0  250M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6              20G  6.1G   13G  32% /home
/dev/hda7             5.5G  1.2M  5.2G   1% /tmp
/dev/hda5              28G  2.3G   24G   9% /usr
/dev/hdc5             1.9G   69M  1.6G   4% /var

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joel@milo:~$df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              72G   29G   39G  42% /
/dev/hda1              45M  6.7M   36M  16% /boot
/dev/hdb               37G  7.4G   27G  22% /mnt/storage
joel@milo:~$

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Today I added a 'broken' 40 gig, fdisk'ed it, and it seems to be doing okay.

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 17702008 1104840 15697932 7% /

yeah gentoo... I'll post again once KDE is installed... but it is still small.

du -cH --max-depth=1
17kB ./lost+found
234kB ./boot
7.3MB ./ppp
157MB ./stages
4.7MB ./bin
0 ./dev
13MB ./etc
12MB ./lib
177kB ./mnt
99MB ./opt
1.5MB ./tmp
1.3GB ./var
2.7GB ./usr
15MB ./home
0 ./proc
3.5MB ./sbin
18MB ./root
51GB ./pub
55GB .
55GB total

FWIW - My new Gentoo installation is using 4.3Gs. I could recover a lot of space from /var as I haven't deleted the temporary portage files. I've installed both KDE and Gnome, XMMS, OpenOffice and Sun's JDK 1.4. So 6 gigs for Linux is pretty reasonable.

/pub contains all my MP3s (I've actually ripped most of these myself from my personal collection) as well as backup copies of software CDs and various GNU/Linux ISOs.

The hard drive is 100Gs.

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 17702008 1228216 15574556 8% /

And here it is with KDE and Gnome installed onto a nothing more than a emerge system. Not to shabby, considering how big my Redhat & Mandrake installs used to be.

said by kasia:

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I discovered my root partition is nearly full.. eeek.. should have an alert for that..

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Back in the old days (late 80s) when I used to admin a System V 4.3 (certified) box, I set up a cron job to warn of impending disk full issues. I don't have the csh script anymore, but I set it up to perform a 'df', parse and cut the use%, check if it was over 90% and then send me email if so.

My shell script skills are a little rusty (OK - a lot rusty), but this should be pretty easy to do.