Bug 592

Summary:	after upgrade from mdv, system has grown a lot.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	AL13N <alien>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description AL13N 2011-03-29 23:43:41 CEST

After my update from mdv 2010.1 x86_64 pwp to mageia 1 alpha 2, the system size has grown immense

mdv 2010.1 powerpack was 5386MB before upgrade
mga 1 alpha 2 was 6246MB after upgrade and update at 2011-03-29

a difference of almost 1GB

where does it come from:
/bin:   7.0MB vs 6.7MB
/boot:   12MB vs 64MB   :  52MB
/dev:   476KB vs 1.8MB
/home:  578MB vs 799MB  : 189MB ( from ~/.local/share/akonadi )
/lib:    61MB vs 193MB  : 132MB
/lib64:  19MB vs 23MB   :   4MB
/root:  1.9MB vs 3.0MB
/sbin:   15MB vs 16MB
/usr:  4282MB vs 4438MB : 156MB
/var:   107MB vs 142MB  :  35MB

installed packages: 2346 vs 2521 (in upgrade mdv to mga)
(keeping in mind that the mga still has some mdv packages)


/boot and /lib/modules because of 3 extra kernels, (no cleaning older kernels?)
/home was due to .local/share/akonadi not being present in mdv, while it's there in mga (even though unused, afaik) and starts with 150MB db.
i guess in /usr it's due to sometimes extra packages and package upgrades

looking at this, that's 550MB, so where has the other 400MB gone to?

so, perhaps 3 points:
 - no cleaning older kernels?
 - more packages installed?
 - 400MB that seems untracable?


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Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-08-28 17:05:34 CEST

and when you do urpme --auto-orphans ?
(if still possible :) )

Comment 2 AL13N 2011-08-28 23:38:44 CEST

this is a quite old bug report, but i think it's still true now. But indeed, i don't have this system anymore...

the big point here is that it's only an upgrade, ie: there aren't any "new" packages? just the mga version versus the mdv ones?

that was the whole point of the bug report, i believe. I guess it should be retested, but tbh, i don't want to reinstall mdv just for this, sorry...

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-06 18:39:53 CET

misc just said on IRC that support to upgrade from Mdv to Mga 2 is not planned.

That means that there is no point in keeping this report open. (also because Mga 1 installer won't get any fixes, of course)

Closing as old

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => OLD

Vladimir Zawalinski 2014-12-18 00:53:19 CET

Blocks: (none) => 14330

AL13N 2014-12-19 19:35:53 CET

Blocks: 14330 => (none)