On 2021-01-02 at 06:49, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 02 ian 21, 06:28:24, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-01-02 at 05:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> How many package versions do you keep around? >>> My laptop is indeed on a 30 GiB partition, but using only 14 GiB. >>> I do (auto)clean the package cache more or less regularly though, >>> even on unstable installs. >> >> That's a bit more sensible, although it still strikes me as fairly >> limiting in terms of how much can be installed. > > With all packages I need already installed I'm barely using 50%. How > is that limiting? In that you don't know what you may turn out to need to install later, or how big that's going to be. I know of some *programs* which are multiple gigabytes in size (though to be fair, they're all A: for Windows or Mac, B: games, or C: both), and I'd hate to discover the need to install them and not have enough capacity to do so. ISTR having also once run out of space on / because of filling up /usr (etc.) due to installed packages, again on a previous machine, and I *definitely* don't want to risk doing *that* again. >>> It's probably best to define what I mean by "installation". For >>> me this means that if I were to install the same set of packages >>> on a blank partition I would end up with about the same size. >> >> That's roughly the definition I was using, yes. >> >>> 100 GiB (excluding /home and other "data" storages) should be >>> plenty. >> >> Yeah, if you'd given that figure initially I probably wouldn't have >> even replied to begin with. It's less than I'd allocate, given the >> disk sizes I have to work with, but it's well within sane ranges >> for a sysadmin to choose even by my standards. > > I meant "plenty" as in "almost wasteful" ;) > > But then again, I'm used to getting by with limited storage space. I > could probably fit all my data in 1 TiB. Whereas I'm more the pack-rat type. Even excluding the redundant copies that I haven't properly unified from various past system-migration and data-recovery scenarios, I have multiple TB of total data, some of it decades old and irreplaceable. Though the large majority of that isn't installed-system, it's user-data, i.e. (quite properly) stored under /home. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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