Ubuntu On 32GB eMMC

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:35:10 -0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:52:32 -0600
> Sajan Parikh <sajan at parikh.io> wrote:
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> > I'm thinking about buying a laptop that only has 32GB eMMC storage.
> > 
> > Will I have any problems installing Ubuntu on this?
> > 
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> 
> No. That is plenty of room for installing Ubuntu. You will probably need
> a cloud server if you want to store any music or videos. You should also
> use only online (web) email and office software that google or
> Microsoft offers. If the computer has USB 2 or 3 ports then you can also
> use an external hard drive for storage of large files.  

I have an older laptop, that although it has a 60gig hard drive (IDE in fact),
I only have about 26.05 gigs worth of mounted disk space (includes a 6gig
partition for music (mostly MP3s, but includes a few music videos). I have
CentOS 5 installed on this machine and use a very simple GUI and don't have
any sort of office software installed. It does have a pile of devel packages
(theXS equivalent of Debian's 'build-essential' plus additional stuff) and all
of LaTeX. And have a local copy of my E-Mail (I *won't* touch a web-based
email system -- yech). I have several VMs installed (include Ubuntu 12.04 and
14.04) in only 10gig LVM volumes, so 32GB is way more than plenty for almost
any GNU/Linux installation. And is generally enough for most normal usages
unless one is going 'off the deep end' with media files (eg lots of raw DV
video footage or vast numbers of images, etc.) or if one is writing epic1
novels using a word processor or something like that. One can store tons of
*plain text* E-Mail in a few gig of disk space. A typical GNU/Linux
installation only needs about 5-6 gig, even with lots of 'bells and whistles'.
My desktop (CentOS 5, mixed 32/64 install, so it has all of the 32-bit and
64-bit libraries) uses about 11gig between /, /usr, and /boot, but that
includes a lot of -devel stuff (both 32 and 64 bit) and a complete Win32
cross-built toolchain in /usr/local/.

> 
> After running Ubuntu software updates you should open a terminal
> window to enter these commands to remove installed and uninstalled
> packages.
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> apt-get autoclean
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> This command removes .deb files for packages that are no longer
> installed on your system. Depending on your installation habits,
> removing these files from /var/cache/apt/archives may regain a
> significant amount of diskspace.
> 
> apt-get clean
> 
> The same as above, except it removes all packages from the package
> cache. This may not be desirable if you have a slow Internet
> connection, since it will cause you to redownload any packages you need
> to install a program.
> 
>     The package cache is in /var/cache/apt/archives . The command
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>     du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives
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>     will tell you how much space cached packages are consuming..
> 

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