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exiguous

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Registered: 2007-11-11

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[SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

I would like to fit Arch into a 5 GB partition. I will use this partition for the whole / (root). I already have a separate partition that holds my music files etc., so I'm mostly concerned about the size of the Arch system itself.

I haven't used Arch for a little while and I cannot recall how much space I need. I will be setting up a very lightweight system with only a handful of applications. I would like to use the ABS, though.

The Arch Beginner's Guide lists some fairly large space requirements, but I am assuming those are for the average or "heavier than average" cases (for example, installing GNOME, KDE, and so on).

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by exiguous (2008-12-13 01:56:40)

Procyon

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Re: [SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

I'm pretty sure it will. I have 447 packages installed at the moment and use less than 2.5 GB on the entire file system except /home.

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

/ on my server uses 1.4 GB, without /var.

haxit

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Re: [SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

My full system, just / not counting /home is 3.4gb. I have everything I need on it.

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nowahn

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Re: [SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

my system, without /home, is 2.6GB, with xorg, xfce4, openoffice, firefox, gimp ...

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iphitus

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Re: [SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

I have an abnormally high number of packages installed....

/dev/hda2             4.8G  4.1G  431M  91% /

fukawi2

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Re: [SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

Just make sure you keep /var/cache/pacman/ clean and you should be right. I'm using 5.3gb on my laptop excluding /home, /boot and /tmp, but 1.8gb of that is pacman cache...
/dev/sda5              19G  5.3G   14G  29% /

My work desktop uses 3.8gb with 1.4gb in pacman cache...
/dev/mapper/lvm0-root       16G  3.8G   13G  24% /

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alex_anthony

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Registered: 2007-09-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

might want to use tmpfs for /var/log and /tmp
running easily in that. 6gb including a gig and a half of films and my home dir

exiguous

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Registered: 2007-11-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Will Arch fit in 5 GB?

Thanks for all the replies. I'm still mulling over my options, but at least now I feel comfortable with the idea of installing Arch into a 5 GB partition.