How Much HD Space for Linux?

[mascarasnake]

Confession time:

I do the wipe and reinstall quite frequently - about every 6 months or 
so. I start thinking "I should have made that backup partition for that 
drive 30 gigs not 25" so spend a day rearranging everything. Nasty 
habit, but it does force me to make sure everything is 100% backed up. 
If you're not adverse to the wipe and replace method, a big space saver 
would be pick a DTE and not install both. I have a 6 GB HDD on my PC and 
only installed GNOME (KDE just wigs me out for some reason and konqueror 
crashes way too much).

I haven't encountered it yet with either of my linux boxes, but I've 
seen on both Mac OS and Winders that overall performance really starts 
to suffer when the disks get about 2/3 to 3/4 full.

OK, done now. Just wanted to let you know that you're not the only one 
that likes the sound of "wipe and reinstall" - Is there a 12 step 
program for this?


Ed Sutherland wrote:

> 
> Not being the patient sort,  I wiped and reinstalled -- this time with 
> just the base system, KDE and Gnome. Just checked and only 23% of the 6 
> gigs is used. I plan to limit my 'experimenting', plus find a util that 
> I can stick in cron to whittle down the ever-growing log files.
> 
> I used to be hesitant to wipe and reinstall (I like the sound of that 
> phrase). The process used to take an entire day to get a working system 
> back up. Now, after learning what to expect and thinking (a little) 
> ahead, I've reduced the time to a couple hours. For instance, I started 
> the reinstall at 9:30am and am writing this email at 11:40am.
> 
> Ed


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