Is this installation too big?

n3mo n3mo.wolf at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 18:07:09 UTC 2009


Just an idea. Does the 64 bit version have some ( or all ) of 32 bit
librarys/binaries by default or it could be something connected with KDE 4.*
instalation?
all the best,
Ned

2009/7/28 Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>

>
> > 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
>
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