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  • szymonpszymonp Member

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    Formatting

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

  • MerlincoolMerlincool Member

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

    https://i.postimg.cc/52xVQqXX/IMG-20220420-190707.jpg

    Didn't find anything significant

  • dane_dohertydane_doherty Member

    I'm gonna say Ubuntu, but that's essentially Debian sans decade-old package updates.

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

    https://i.postimg.cc/52xVQqXX/IMG-20220420-190707.jpg

    Didn't find anything significant

    1018 MB used of a 35 GB disk. What's the problem?
    In case you really need a linux that uses less disk space -> Alpine.

  • MerlincoolMerlincool Member

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

    https://i.postimg.cc/52xVQqXX/IMG-20220420-190707.jpg

    Didn't find anything significant

    1018 MB used of a 35 GB disk. What's the problem?
    In case you really need a linux that uses less disk space -> Alpine.

    Not really this is my space consumed https://i.postimg.cc/Kz24z47j/IMG-20220420-121454.jpg

    How can I say only 1018 MB space was used. Where is other occupied?

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

    https://i.postimg.cc/52xVQqXX/IMG-20220420-190707.jpg

    Didn't find anything significant

    1018 MB used of a 35 GB disk. What's the problem?
    In case you really need a linux that uses less disk space -> Alpine.

    Not really this is my space consumed https://i.postimg.cc/Kz24z47j/IMG-20220420-121454.jpg

    How can I say only 1018 MB space was used. Where is other occupied?

    Look at the '/dev/vda1' line. '1002 MB used' matches the 'du' output quite well. Why are there, as it seems, another 4 GB "used", i.e. not available? Probably some reserve space managed by the OS.

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member
    edited April 2022

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

    https://i.postimg.cc/52xVQqXX/IMG-20220420-190707.jpg

    Didn't find anything significant

    1018 MB used of a 35 GB disk. What's the problem?
    In case you really need a linux that uses less disk space -> Alpine.

    Not really this is my space consumed https://i.postimg.cc/Kz24z47j/IMG-20220420-121454.jpg

    How can I say only 1018 MB space was used. Where is other occupied?

    I like how 33-1=30.

    There's two 1GB tmpfs, but I'm not sure if that comes from the 35GB or the 33GB.

  • MerlincoolMerlincool Member

    @TimboJones said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

    https://i.postimg.cc/52xVQqXX/IMG-20220420-190707.jpg

    Didn't find anything significant

    1018 MB used of a 35 GB disk. What's the problem?
    In case you really need a linux that uses less disk space -> Alpine.

    Not really this is my space consumed https://i.postimg.cc/Kz24z47j/IMG-20220420-121454.jpg

    How can I say only 1018 MB space was used. Where is other occupied?

    I like how 33-1=30.

    There's two 1GB tmpfs, but I'm not sure if that comes from the 35GB or the 33GB.

    And at first place why not 35 GB? why 33 GB? Sorry if I am missing something.

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    @Merlincool said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

    https://i.postimg.cc/52xVQqXX/IMG-20220420-190707.jpg

    Didn't find anything significant

    1018 MB used of a 35 GB disk. What's the problem?
    In case you really need a linux that uses less disk space -> Alpine.

    Not really this is my space consumed https://i.postimg.cc/Kz24z47j/IMG-20220420-121454.jpg

    How can I say only 1018 MB space was used. Where is other occupied?

    I like how 33-1=30.

    There's two 1GB tmpfs, but I'm not sure if that comes from the 35GB or the 33GB.

    And at first place why not 35 GB? why 33 GB? Sorry if I am missing something.

    Operating system overhead.

    Thanked by 1Merlincool
  • szymonpszymonp Member

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:

    @Merlincool said:

    @jsg said:
    @Merlincool

    Wrong question, because AFAIK all linux distros (for server use) as well as all BSDs don't use more than a couple of hundred MB or a bit over a GB (incl. typically needed software). But to answer your question anyway, I use and recommend Alpine or, if a client demands so (a few do), a custom-made (with the help of a friend and BSD guru) Mini-FreeBSD, both of which run happily (incl. server software made for clients) from very small disks (< 1GB) and 128 MB RAM.
    The real problem (or "problem") wrt disk space required is the full stack that many (probably most) "need" that is, e.g. LAMP/BAMP/LNMP/BNMP, plus the data both of which often are bloated and without any care about space.

    i just installed Debian 10 64 bit and my vps shows 30 GB space free. Which is good question where my space is been occupied?

    That image I posted on top was after fresh installation of debain 10 and no additional softwares of other things were installed.

    du -hd 1 / might be a good starting point.

    https://i.postimg.cc/52xVQqXX/IMG-20220420-190707.jpg

    Didn't find anything significant

    1018 MB used of a 35 GB disk. What's the problem?
    In case you really need a linux that uses less disk space -> Alpine.

    Not really this is my space consumed https://i.postimg.cc/Kz24z47j/IMG-20220420-121454.jpg

    How can I say only 1018 MB space was used. Where is other occupied?

    Look at the '/dev/vda1' line. '1002 MB used' matches the 'du' output quite well. Why are there, as it seems, another 4 GB "used", i.e. not available? Probably some reserve space managed by the OS.

    The 4GB is formatting

  • drizbodrizbo Member

    4GB is donated to Chia

  • AdvinAdvin Member, Patron Provider
    edited April 2022

    @Merlincool said:

    @Advin said:

    @WebProject said:

    @Advin said:
    Windows

    Haha, windows will use whole lot, so Debian is the best OS.


    This is not photoshopped or anything :)
    It's actually running on 4GB of storage and still has spare space!

    Is it possible on vps?

    Yes, I just started running it on a few VPS's recently. I first installed it on a VPS that's running on my Proxmox box with a couple of applications and then I saved the disk as a .img so that I could clone it to any provider I want (as long as they have some form of rescue).

    I wouldn't really recommend it if you don't actually need Windows.

  • AlexTheRockAlexTheRock Member

    Debian 10 minimal

  • chenxuhuachenxuhua Member

    Debian9

  • Gamma17Gamma17 Member

    Alpine linux, or alternatively openbsd.

    Both have very simple text based installers, have no trouble installing even on smallest VMs one can buy and both work well for whatever this small VMs can be used.

    Great thing about openbsd is that it can be installed by simply booting bsd.rd using grub, so no need to mount ISOs in case provider does not have easy access to that.

    Both also have minimal install which is actually minimal unlike some more mainstream options...

    Thanked by 2devp Merlincool
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