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?
I don’t know how silverblue works, but i’m assuming they offer some way to clean up. You wouldn’t want to clean up everything at all times everytime you update, since that kinda defeats the point of an immutable system, but 90gb sounds excessive and definitely warrants some sort of cleanup. On NixOS there is a garbage collect feature where you can remove old generations. If you never run that eventually the drive runs out of space as well.
It depends on where that storage was used. Some details would be useful.
At its core, you shouldn’t need to keep any previous layers than the one you’re using for the OS.
You also technically don’t need snapshots for anything but your personal file space.
It depends on where that storage was used. Some details would be useful.
Linux mint 240 SSD is free 152 GB. The SSD includes home directory(28 GB) and Swap file(17 GB)
I have an 500 GB HDD that has 20 GB important files. I plan on keeping a copy on the 240 SSD and want the immutable allow twice that sizes(40 GB).
I don’t plan on playing any games but i do plan on trying out some video and photo editing, nothing too big.
Okay, but give a little look into where your disk is using space.
du -hsc /And work from there.
I suppose to some extent that it depends on how aggressive you clean up after system updates.
It seems like on both Silverblue and NixOS there is stuff you can do to prune and cleanup unnecessary stuff.
The OS shouldn’t take that much storage regardless of whether its immutable. If you’re talking about containerized software, then it will depend on what programs you plan to run.
If you’re talking about containerized software
do you mean Flathub or something like docker/distrobox. I remember using toolbox for some CLI commands.
