Hello,
Actually, partman will even just refuse to setup partitions.
Indeed, installling Squeeze (without any task) via the network needs
460MiB free on /, so you don't really have room for swap. Once the
.debs cleaned, you're still with 340MiB, while Lenny needed only 268MiB
for the same base system. You can't install Debian on a.g. a 512MiB
sheeva-plug unless disabling swap. Where the additional 72MiB disk usage
has gone?
Here are first the "Installed-Size" figures sorted from biggest size
increase to biggest size decrease. You can see here that the big culprit
is first of course the load of kernel drivers, but also grub, the
console keyboard/font, aptitude, bash (3.2->4.1), coreutils, the
installation of gettext-base which didn't happen in Lenny. These amount
to 40MiB increase. The remaining "Installed-Size" increase (18MiB) is
spread by <1MiB bits among other packages.
Lenny Squeeze Squeeze-Lenny cumulated
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 58576 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 75916 17340 17340
Grub-stuff (grub, 1164 Grub-stuff (grub-pc, 7424 6260 23600
grub-common) grub-common, libfreetype6)
Console-stuff
(console-common, Console-stuff (console-setup,
console-data, 5104 console-terminus, xkb-data, 9944 4840 28440
console-tools, keyboard-configuration, kbd)
libconsole)
discover-data 3816 3816 32256
aptitude 9648 aptitude 12792 3144 35400
bash 1104 bash 3480 2376 37776
coreutils 10032 coreutils 12188 2156 39932
gettext-base 1000 1000 40932
locales 11584 locales 12576 992 41924
pciutils 880 880 42804
apt 5108 apt 5984 876 43680
udev 808 udev 1628 820 44500
groff-base 2504 groff-base 3320 816 45316
libsqlite3-0 696 696 46012
diff 744 diffutils 1320 576 46588
util-linux 1624 util-linux 2084 460 47048
wget 1928 wget 2312 384 47432
libexpat1 368 368 47800
xz-utils 360 360 48160
libdiscover2 332 332 48492
sed 628 sed 956 328 48820
liblzma2 308 308 49128
insserv 292 292 49420
libpam-runtime 952 libpam-runtime 1244 292 49712
gnupg 4892 gnupg 5176 284 49996
man-db 2580 man-db 2856 276 50272
ucf 268 268 50540
linux-base 260 260 50800
install-info 256 256 51056
rsyslog 480 rsyslog 732 252 51308
libdb4.6 1248 libdb4.8 1488 240 51548
dash 224 224 51772
cpio 676 cpio 892 216 51988
findutils 1512 findutils 1708 196 52184
libboost-iostreams1.42.0 192 192 52376
libudev0 192 192 52568
dmsetup 184 184 52752
discover 172 172 52924
perl-base 4316 perl-base 4488 172 53096
dhcp-stuff 1124 dhcp-stuff 1288 164 53260
passwd 2108 passwd 2272 164 53424
libslang2 1104 libslang2 1264 160 53584
apt-utils 420 apt-utils 576 156 53740
tar 2248 tar 2392 144 53884
libnewt0.52 820 libnewt0.52 960 140 54024
manpages 972 manpages 1112 140 54164
net-tools 820 net-tools 948 128 54292
bsdmainutils 608 bsdmainutils 728 120 54412
libpci3 116 116 54528
sensible-utils 112 112 54640
debconf-i18n 1100 debconf-i18n 1208 108 54748
libpam-modules 884 libpam-modules 992 108 54856
gpgv 300 gpgv 396 96 54952
sysvinit-utils 172 sysvinit-utils 260 88 55040
libblkid1 124 libblkid1 208 84 55124
libc6 10776 Libc6 + libc-bin 10860 84 55208
ifupdown 144 ifupdown 224 80 55288
libdevmapper1.02.1 136 libdevmapper1.02.1 216 80 55368
libuuid-perl 80 80 55448
e2fsprogs 1960 e2fsprogs 2032 72 55520
libnfnetlink0 72 72 55592
libgcc1 88 libgcc1 156 68 55660
libselinux1 148 libselinux1 216 68 55728
libtext-iconv-perl 44 libtext-iconv-perl 104 60 55788
debconf 1508 debconf 1564 56 55844
initramfs-tools 412 initramfs-tools 468 56 55900
iproute 920 iproute 976 56 55956
libtext-charwidth-perl 36 libtext-charwidth-perl 92 56 56012
libklibc 88 libklibc 140 52 56064
libsepol1 252 libsepol1 300 48 56112
module-init-tools 288 module-init-tools 332 44 56156
base-files 432 base-files 472 40 56196
busybox 436 busybox 476 40 56236
info 352 info 392 40 56276
libacl1 48 libacl1 88 40 56316
libgdbm3 80 libgdbm3 120 40 56356
mount 312 mount 352 40 56396
gcc-4.2-base 140 gcc-4.4-base 176 36 56432
libreadline5 320 libreadline6 356 36 56468
libstdc++6 1168 libstdc++6 1204 36 56504
nano 1716 nano 1752 36 56540
sysv-rc 260 sysv-rc 296 36 56576
klibc-utils 408 klibc-utils 440 32 56608
libusb-0.1-4 64 libusb-0.1-4 96 32 56640
zlib1g 128 zlib1g 160 32 56672
bsdutils 164 bsdutils 192 28 56700
libattr1 36 libattr1 64 28 56728
eject 312 eject 336 24 56752
ncurses-bin 480 ncurses-bin 500 20 56772
e2fslibs 284 e2fslibs 300 16 56788
libncursesw5 624 libncursesw5 640 16 56804
libpopt0 192 libpopt0 208 16 56820
acpid 188 acpid 200 12 56832
libpam0g 232 libpam0g 244 12 56844
iputils-ping 120 iputils-ping 128 8 56852
libcomerr2 96 libcomerr2 104 8 56860
libncurses5 584 libncurses5 592 8 56868
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 88 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 96 8 56876
libss2 104 libss2 112 8 56884
logrotate 92 logrotate 100 8 56892
traceroute 168 traceroute 176 8 56900
initscripts 388 initscripts 392 4 56904
libbz2-1.0 124 libbz2-1.0 128 4 56908
linux-image-2.6-686 32 linux-image-2.6-686 36 4 56912
mawk 224 mawk 228 4 56916
procps 672 procps 676 4 56920
tasksel 900 tasksel 904 4 56924
vim-tiny 716 vim-tiny 720 4 56928
whiptail 96 whiptail 100 4 56932
acpi 88 acpi 88 0 56932
debian-archive-keyring 64 debian-archive-keyring 64 0 56932
dmidecode 168 dmidecode 168 0 56932
hostname 84 hostname 84 0 56932
installation-report 108 installation-report 108 0 56932
laptop-detect 20 laptop-detect 20 0 56932
liblocale-gettext-perl 104 liblocale-gettext-perl 104 0 56932
libtext-wrapi18n-perl 28 libtext-wrapi18n-perl 28 0 56932
libuuid1 112 libuuid1 112 0 56932
lsb-base 72 lsb-base 72 0 56932
netbase 96 netbase 96 0 56932
netcat-traditional 192 netcat-traditional 192 0 56932
acpi-support-base 88 acpi-support-base 84 -4 56928
base-passwd 184 base-passwd 180 -4 56924
gzip 284 gzip 276 -8 56916
libssl0.9.8 6796 libssl0.9.8 6788 -8 56908
libcwidget3 828 libcwidget3 808 -20 56888
sysvinit 276 sysvinit 248 -28 56860
tasksel-data 1000 tasksel-data 972 -28 56832
ncurses-base 484 ncurses-base 448 -36 56796
readline-common 136 readline-common 92 -44 56752
debianutils 272 debianutils 216 -56 56696
mktemp 60 -60 56636
adduser 944 adduser 880 -64 56572
grep 1180 grep 1116 -64 56508
tzdata 6344 tzdata 6272 -72 56436
ed 96 -96 56340
libwrap0 96 -96 56244
iptables 1228 iptables 1120 -108 56136
update-inetd 120 -120 56016
lzma 124 -124 55892
libvolume-id0 140 -140 55752
makedev 148 -148 55604
libc6-i686 2796 libc6-i686 2640 -156 55448
gcc-4.3-base 160 -160 55288
vim-common 540 vim-common 364 -176 55112
cron 540 cron 336 -204 54908
tcpd 212 -212 54696
login 2392 login 1956 -436 54260
usbutils 580 -580 53680
dpkg 7272 dpkg 6432 -840 52840
Libxapian15 + libept0 5568 Libxapian22 + libept1 4608 -960 51880
211620 263500 51880
Now, there's also some generated stuff. The mere list of packages in
apt uses an additional ~20MiB. And initrd got bigger too.
Lenny Squeeze Squeeze-Lenny
/var/lib/apt/lists 36000 47500 11500
/var/cache/apt 19000 27000 8000
/var/cache/debconf 2100 2100 0
initrd.img 6100 8470 2370
63200 85070 21870
Another interesting view of all this increase is through the filesystem:
Lenny Squeeze Squeeze-Lenny
/lib/modules 57640 75428 17788
/usr/share 81584 98344 16760 (notably +6M locales, +2M doc, +3M xkbdata, +2M grub)
/var/lib 46080 59748 13668 (mostly apt/lists)
/var/cache 21868 29804 7936 (mostly apt)
/boot 8756 13932 5176
/lib (except modules) 9276 14096 4820 (notably 3.6M discover)
/usr/bin 13568 17104 3536
/usr/lib 27916 29140 1224
/bin 4120 4868 748
/sbin 3348 3664 316
/etc 1296 1572 276
/usr/sbin 2120 2324 204
/var/log 876 960 84
There's a part of the increase which we probably want to afford (new
drivers, locales, doc, keyboard support), something like ~30MiB.
The apt cache increase (~20MiB) is merely due to more packages available
(28000)
The rest (~22MiB) is just bigger software.
Samuel