On 30/09/2013 19:25, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-09-30 1:10 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> 150gb for / with usr and you will be fine for ages. > > I'm curious what a common/average size is for desktops... > > My /usr, without portage files, is @ 5GB. > > My current / is only 83M, so even after I merge /usr into it, it will > still be only @ 5GB... > > But, this is a server, so... > > For an average desktop, loaded with software (say, KDE, Libreoffice, > etc), how much will /usr grow to? Or more specifically, what is a > *reasonable* maximum one could expect? >
The big space hogs are: /usr/lib* /usr/share/ most of that comes from KDE and Gnome. Both systems are huge and bundle lots of "accessory" files - best descriptive word I could find. The main culprit by far is artwork - themes, wallpaper, sound themes, icon collections and so on. Second is marble, celestia and similar geo* type apps with their maps. I'd say 20G total is a) lots more than you'd actually need even with tons of unneeded artwork and b) a tiny fraction of the smallest (spinning) disk you can buy these days. So 20G is a good upper limit to start with. Marble and celestia users can bump it up according to their needs - anyone who has detailed maps of the entire Earth's land surface likely already knows how much disk space it takes up :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
