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jerryluc

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-05-20

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increasing size of installation

I "pacman -Syu"ed today and got some nice info about the update: 100 mb to download and 300 mb to install. Great! But could i find out how much space my arch installation increases by this update? It's not like my installation will be 300 mb bigger afterwards? Could it possibly become smaller after the update?

Will an OS installation become bigger and bigger by time because of more complex source code?

lilsirecho

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Re: increasing size of installation

The actual increase is not nearly the amount specified but is a delta between the original install and the newer install.

The size of the OS installation is slowly increasing with upgrades but not a great deal.  More is provided by added packages than by upgrades.

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haxit

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Re: increasing size of installation

Also don't forget to clear your cache, if you don't need it with pacman -Scc. Save a lot of space.

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Re: increasing size of installation

Logs can be bitches too... Especially if you're of the "on the edge"-type... I often have a /var/log of >2GB...

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jerryluc

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-05-20

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Re: increasing size of installation

thanks for the answers! but is'nt a little bit stupid to erase the logs?

Factory

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: increasing size of installation

thanks for the answers! but is'nt a little bit stupid to erase the logs?

Not unless something goes wrong and you have nothing to look back on. Personally my /var/log only takes up 6.6M, so really it's not going to make much of a difference at all as far as clutter goes. Personally, I wouldn't suggest deleting your logs (except if they're exceeding a gig or something ridiculous... then you can start deleting some old ones).

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: increasing size of installation

With logrotate and metalog you can purge the old system logs. Those aren't all that important, unless you need something specific from them.