Re: How big can an install get?

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:

 Peter> When I used slackware a few years ago, my installation used up
 Peter> 140 MB.  My Debian installation is up to 650MB on a 700MB root
 Peter> partition.  I'm about to get a new disk (and a chance to more
 Peter> stuff and repartition).  How big does Debian get with
 Peter> _everything_ installed?

	Everything? I dunno (conflicts would limit the number of
 packages installed too). 

__> dpkg -l | egrep ^ii | wc -l
   1484
__> df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda2             505471  144639   334727     30%   /
/dev/hda7            1383377  821759   490131     63%   /usr
/dev/hda8            1026067  629103   343952     65%   /usr/lib
/dev/hdd5            1014781  225298   737061     23%   /var


	manoj


-- 
 A help wanted add for a photo journalist asked the rhetorical
 question: If you found yourself in a situation where you could either
 save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning
 photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you
 use? Paul Harvey
Manoj Srivastava  <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05  CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E