Curt Sampson wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Ted Powell wrote: > > > My Red Hat 5.1 system may well have a certain amount of cruft, as I've > > been doing upgrades rather than installs since RH3. In any case, when I > > did du -s /* and added up everything except /usr, /var, /opt, and /home, > > I got 23,522KB. > > Interesting. How big is your /lib? That was over 7 MB on the system > I looked at, but that may well be atypical.
It really depends. My /lib on both machines is almost 12.5 MB.
However, that's RH 5.1 with modules for several custom kernels,
therefore, /lib/modules/* (and RH-specific /lib/security/*) really add
up to 'du'. OTOH, on say Slackware or a do-it-yourself system with
monolithic kernel it may very well be around 7MB. On my 1.44MB rescue
boot disk /lib is only 3MB when it's uncompressed and mounted in RAM
after startup but it only has essentials.
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