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Old 02-28-2022, 07:54 AM   #1
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How much disk space do I need for full Slackware 15 installation?


Its a basic question but at official site, only minimum requirements are mentioned, not space for full installation.

According to a similar question for version 14.2, it seemed to need 10-20 GB.
 
Old 02-28-2022, 08:44 AM   #2
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On a full clean install, with nothing added, I show just under 17g used on the root partition. Most of my systems are 23 + gig with the usual things I add after install. YMMV.
 
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Old 02-28-2022, 02:35 PM   #3
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How much disk space do I need for full Slackware 15 installation?

It's around 16Gb. The installer tells you.
 
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Old 02-28-2022, 03:40 PM   #4
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A complete install of version 15 is about 17G, recommend at the minimum 20G, 80G or more would be better to allow room for personal files

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Old 02-28-2022, 09:08 PM   #5
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I get the same as colorpurple21859.

I usually set up separate and root partitions and allocate 25G-30G for / and the remainder for /home. I've found 25G for root to be adequate with every distro I've used.
 
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Old 02-28-2022, 10:38 PM   #6
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Thanks @camorri, @rkelsen, @colorpurple21859, @frankbell.
 
Old 05-10-2022, 09:37 AM   #7
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You can also use BTRFS with subvolumes and don't care about multiple partitions and their sizes.
 
Old 05-10-2022, 10:44 AM   #8
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Yes, you'll get the installation into 20G with room to spare.

I enlarged my / from 25G to 40G because there are (to me) essential packages that get grabbed from Alien's repo - Multilib, wine, libreoffice, etc. And that's before you install any third party software. And logs, caches, things like pdfs photos and configs build up over time.

I have 50G for /home.
 
Old 05-10-2022, 04:40 PM   #9
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logrotate takes care of your logs. In a default installation, it will run every day at 4:40.

I've recently been experimenting with minimal installations for VMs as network appliances, and have found that you can get a decently usable system in well under 1 gb.

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Old 05-11-2022, 02:52 AM   #10
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logrotate takes care of your logs if you keep your machine up overnight.

Ugly one gives MiBs:

Code:
opty@zeryk:~$ echo $(($(($(echo $(grep -r UNCOMPRESSED /var/log/packages | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed -r 's/^([0-9]+[KM]*)$/\1*10/; s/\.//; s/M/KK/; s/K/*1024/g') | sed 's/ /+/g'))) / 10 / 1024 / 1024))
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Old 05-11-2022, 03:13 AM   #11
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logrotate takes care of your logs if you keep your machine up overnight.
You don't???
Quote:
Originally Posted by opty View Post
Ugly one gives MiBs:
Code:
opty@zeryk:~$ echo $(($(($(echo $(grep -r UNCOMPRESSED /var/log/packages | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed -r 's/^([0-9]+[KM]*)$/\1*10/; s/\.//; s/M/KK/; s/K/*1024/g') | sed 's/ /+/g'))) / 10 / 1024 / 1024))
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Or:
Code:
$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs            32M  1.7M   31M   6% /run
devtmpfs         16G     0   16G   0% /dev
/dev/nvme0n1p3   47G   19G   27G  41% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
cgroup_root     8.0M     0  8.0M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           3.2G   16K  3.2G   1% /run/user/1000
 
Old 05-11-2022, 03:32 AM   #12
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I make 40GB for my / and I have /home elsewhere and a seperate /opt with a bunch of things.

40GB is sufficient for most cases, unless you plan to add alot of software to /usr. Some people make a partition for /usr and can then keep / smaller.
I also have an "experimental" Slackware installation on another partition. For this I use 30GB and I have no other mounts for it, and 30GB is more than sufficient for the purpose.

Anyways, with a separate /home, it will take alot to fill up 40GB on /, presuming you put VM.images and such on /home instead of /var
 
Old 06-29-2022, 05:16 AM   #13
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Hi

I went through the upgrade path, found that roughly 18.5 gig was used of a twenty gig partion - not enough space left to compile larger SBo scripts so removed kde.
 
Old 06-29-2022, 06:07 AM   #14
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20G definitely isn't enough, as most users end up adding software outside the main distribution. If you have anything that comes with it's own database, it's easy to have an extra ≅15G added on.
 
Old 06-29-2022, 03:06 PM   #15
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I get the same as colorpurple21859.

I usually set up separate and root partitions and allocate 25G-30G for / and the remainder for /home. I've found 25G for root to be adequate with every distro I've used.
I tend to agree with you. BUT, if you do the mistake to grab a kernel config from -current to build your shiny custom kernel, you may have a big surprise: your 25GB root partition may end filled fully and locked out of your system. I heard that people bitten this.

SO, be gentle to not make recommendations like this 25GB anymore.

Slackware needs at least 50GB for its root, if not 100GB just in case. At least this say the life experiences. Because every Slacker is a Kernel Hacker.

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