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April 21, 2010

How big (diskspace wise) is a basic but functional linux server install?

I have a Debian Lenny server that has apache/php installed and a bunch of other standard tools (tcpdump etc) but no database.

The server files (and I’m guessing reserved blocks) come to a total of 1.27GB.


pe7:/# du -sm /*
5       /bin
23      /boot
0       /cdrom
1       /dev
5       /etc
1       /home
0       /initrd.img
0       /initrd.img.old
122     /lib
1       /lost+found
1       /media
1       /mnt
1       /opt
1       /root
3       /sbin
1       /selinux
0       /sys
1       /tmp
575     /usr
547     /var
0       /vmlinuz
0       /vmlinuz.old

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