I've been going through my Ubuntu set up and tweaking all of my configurations and removing unnecessary packages and programs to create my perfect linux desktop.
Is there any way to get the current size of my installation and it's packages?
2 Answers
Perfect list of how to achieve this could be found for example here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=599424
answered Apr 4, 2013 at 16:25
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When using the list_installed_packages_by_size.sh script (could be in the linked forum), the total size is: list_installed_packages_by_size.sh 1 | awk 'BEGIN { t=0; } { t+=$1; } END { print t; }' Apr 4, 2013 at 16:29
Well, if you just want to know, how much disk your linux installation uses, you can simply go to a terminal and check the disk usage of your root folders
sudo du -h -s /usr
sudo du -h -s /etc
and so on. The -h option stands for "human readable" and -s for "summary".
