Difference between revisions of "Diskspace"

Latest revision as of 13:58, 9 November 2013

This article is about how much diskspace is used by a Linux installation. To find out free diskspace on your computer, use the command df.

Distribution	harddisk size	free space after partitioning and formatting	space used after default installation according to df
Fedora 16	20G	18G	2.3G
SUSE 12.2	40G		4.4G

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-Ok I want to know how much diskspace you really need. So I installed Fedora 16 in a VMware player virtual machine with 20 GB harddisk. Here is the result according to the [[command]] [[df]]:
+This article is about how much diskspace is used by a Linux installation. To find out free diskspace on your computer, use the [[command]] [[df]].
-* harddisk size: 20 GB
+{| class="wikitable sortable" border=1
-* after partitioning and formatting: 18 GB
+! Distribution !! harddisk size !! free space after partitioning and formatting !! space used after default installation according to df
-* after installing default Fedora 16: 15 GB
+|-
+| Fedora 16 || 20G || 18G || 2.3G
-On the root file system, 2.3 GB are used according to the [[command]] [[df]].
+|-
+| SUSE 12.2    || 40G    ||  || 4.4G
+|-
+|}