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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How much take space Linux operating system? Post 302927776 by sea on Friday 5th of December 2014 11:45:03 AM
Old 12-05-2014
The actualy space usage does not really depend wether you use Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD or Solaris.
It does depend which, and how many programms you have installed.

But it is true to say, that a basic installation of LXDE takes less space than a Gnome or KDE.
But anway, it could be very small:
Code:
df -h 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/dm-0        31G  4.4G   25G  16% /

But, that is my system which was built with a minimal approach, using a WM most people cannot handle.

'Count' with 10 GB per system, and add at least like 5 GB 'secure' space to that.
This is also true for Windows.
A default Windows installation (vista,7,8) takes around 7 to 12 GB.

And with a disk of 400GB, i dont really see the need to switch, at least not caused due to space.

This said, i highly recomend what Jim already said.

Hope this helps
 

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BOOTCD(1)							   bootcd utils 							 BOOTCD(1)

NAME
bootcdflopcp - copy changes made after booting from bootcd to floppy SYNOPSIS
bootcdflopcp [-v] [-d <device>] DESCRIPTION
bootcdflopcp will copy changes made in ram to the floppy disk. bootcdflopcp will be available as soon as your system is running from cd. The floppy has to have a filesystem already. (See mke2fs or mformat). If you have to boot from floppy, because your cd-drive or bios does not support to boot from cd a msdos filesystem is used to run syslinux. When bootcdflopcp is called it searches for differences between RAM and CD. For each different file, it checks if it is listed in the files ignore, remove or change on floppy. If it is listed in change it will be saved to change.tgz on floppy. If it is listed in remove the file will be removed from ram next boot time. If it is listed in ignore it will be ignored. If it is not listed at all you will be interactively asked what to do. OPTIONS
-v The option "-v" (verbose) adds messages on running. -d <device> Use another device instead of "/dev/fd0" to save changes. FILES
FLOPPY:/remove If a file is listed here the file will be deleted from ram next boot time. FLOPPY:/change If a file is listed here bootcdflopcp will save it in change.tgz. FLOPPY:/ignore If a file is listed here bootcdflopcp will ignore changes to this file. FLOPPY:/change.tgz Here all changed files are stored in gzipped tar format. SEE ALSO
bootcd(1), bootcd2disk(1), bootcdwrite(1) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher <bernd.schumacher@hp.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Wed Feb 23 00:00:00 EET 2000 BOOTCD(1)
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