Is this installation too big?

[Chris Jones]

> My concern is that the / partition has very little free space on it.  
>  >From the offending machine.  At one point I seemed to have essentially 
> 0 space available on /dev/sda6 and the machine froze.  So is the 
> "artificial" space occupied by /proc/kcore really on the disk? 

No, it is not on disk. Forget about this.

Bear in mind that a 64 bit machine is also a 32 bit machine. Depending 
on what you installed your 64 bit install might have a lot of 32 bit 
binaries installed *as* *well* as the 64 bit versions. A brute force 
check is something like

 > du -sh /usr/lib /usr/lib64 /lib /lib64

where /usr/lib64  /lib64 contain 64-bit libraries, /usr/lib /lib 32 bit 
ones. Compare the output between your two systems. It depends on what 
you selected when installing your system what you might have in each of 
these.

One other thing - Do you have the same things on each ? Does each have 
the same WM available (gnome, KDE4, KDE3 etc.) .... Kinda obvious I know 
  but I have to ask.

cheers Chris