[Freedombox-discuss] Some notes on the disk space situation on FreedomBox 0.2

[Jack Wilborn]

I have successfully run my 16 G byte card in my Dreamplug.  Seems to
operate ok, as I have some addtions to the man pages.

Jack


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Nick Daly <nick.m.daly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> writes:
>
> > When Bdale switched on the option to store the source of all the
> > installed packages in /usr/src/packages/ to prepare for the release
> > build, the disk space situation on the freedombox changed dramatically.
> > I believe we need to increase the image sizes by almost one GiB to cope.
> >
> > On my freshly created virtualbox image, the root file system is 2.7 GiB
> > according to df -h, and 1.9 GiB (74%) of this is used.  Only 692 MiB is
> > available according to df (5% is reserved for user root and not included
> > in that number).
> >
> > According to apt-get, installing owncloud will use 973 MiB of additional
> > disk space, which clearly will not fit in 692 MiB.
>
> Per James's work [0], we can now install owncloud without the
> recommends, reducing owncloud's install size (to around 70 MiB, if I've
> mathed correctly).  However, it may still be time to increase the image
> size to 4 GiB.  I believe that would still fit on the default DreamPlug
> microSD card, of 4 GB.  Now seems like a fine time to upsize the image,
> though I'm very wary of doing so much further.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Nick
>
> 0: https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth/pull/61
>
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