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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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how much storage space does an immutable Distro need in the long run? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by cactus_head@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Two years or so tried fedora Silverblue and one the main issue i run into was storage. I had 180 GB SSD at the time and it filled to 90-something in a week. Now i have a 240 GB SSD and thing of try an immutable distro but worried about the storage space.

Anyone got insight into how big an SSD do i need?

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, but give a little look into where your disk is using space.

du -hsc /

And work from there.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

I keep getting "No such file or directory" and " Permission denied" on directories "/pro" and "/run". I am assuming those are the partitions of the HDD, either way, i got 193 GB but its not down broken down into sections. i am also wondering if it counted the HDD storage space in the total storage used.

Linux mint does have Disk Usage Analyzer where i got the storage spaced breakdown from. the size of / directory is 117 GB, 48 of which is Timeshift snapshots, so 67 GB of used space out of 240 GB SSD.