ubuntu hardy disk image

Just noticed this in the distro wizard:

Ubuntu 6.06 : 250MB

Ubuntu 7.04 : 252MB

Ubuntu 7.10 : 237MB

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Ubuntu 8.04 : 350MB

Why is the new ubuntu disk image so much larger than the old ones? Not that I'm running out of space or anything… I'm just curious what you guys packed into the default hardy image that wasn't in the default gutsy image. Or are the same packages so much larger/heavier in the latest version?

I'm playing with hardy right now, and it's not like apache is installed by default or anything like that. But maybe I missed something

:wink:

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Lists of what is installed in the Linode distros:

Ubuntu 7.10                        Ubuntu 8.04

adduser                           adduser
apt                               apt
apt-utils                         aptitude 
aptitude                          base-files 
base-files                        base-passwd
base-passwd                       bash 
bash                              bash-completion
belocs-locales-bin                bsdmainutils 
bind9-host                        bsdutils 
bsdmainutils                      coreutils
bsdutils                          cpp
busybox-initramfs                 cpp-4.2
bzip2                             cron 
console-common                    dash 
console-data                      debconf
console-tools                     debconf-i18n 
coreutils                         debianutils
cpio                              dhcp3-client 
cron                              dhcp3-common 
dash                              diff 
debconf                           dpkg 
debconf-i18n                      e2fslibs 
debianutils                       e2fsprogs
dhcp3-client                      file 
dhcp3-common                      findutils
diff                              gcc-4.2-base 
dmsetup                           gnupg
dnsutils                          gpgv 
dpkg                              grep 
e2fslibs                          groff-base 
e2fsprogs                         gzip 
file                              hostname 
findutils                         ifupdown 
ftp                               initscripts
gcc-4.1-base                      iproute
gcc-4.2-base                      iputils-ping 
gettext-base                      klogd
gpgv                              less 
grep                              libacl1
grepmap                           libatm1
groff-base                        libattr1 
gzip                              libblkid1
hostname                          libbz2-1.0 
ifupdown                          libc6
initramfs-tools                   libc6-i686 
initscripts                       libcap1
iproute                           libck-connector0 
iptables                          libcomerr2 
iputils-arping                    libcurl3-gnutls
iputils-ping                      libcwidget3
iputils-tracepath                 libdb4.6 
klibc-utils                       libdbus-1-3
klogd                             libdevmapper1.02.1 
less                              libedit2 
libacl1                           libgcc1
libatm1                           libgcrypt11
libattr1                          libgdbm3 
libbind9-30                       libgnutls13
libblkid1                         libgpg-error0
libbz2-1.0                        libidn11 
libc6                             libkeyutils1 
libc6-i686                        libkrb53 
libcap1                           libldap-2.4-2
libclass-accessor-perl            liblocale-gettext-perl 
libcomerr2                        liblzo2-2
libconsole                        libmagic1
libdb4.2                          libncurses5
libdb4.4                          libncursesw5 
libdb4.5                          libnewt0.52
libdevmapper1.02                  libopencdk10 
libdevmapper1.02.1                libpam-modules 
libdns32                          libpam-runtime 
libedit2                          libpam0g 
libelfg0                          libpopt0 
libfribidi0                       libreadline5 
libgcc1                           libsasl2-2 
libgdbm3                          libsasl2-modules 
libgpmg1                          libselinux1
libhtml-parser-perl               libsepol1
libhtml-tagset-perl               libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 
libhtml-template-perl             libslang2
libidn11                          libsqlite3-0 
libio-string-perl                 libss2 
libisc32                          libssl0.9.8
libisccc30                        libstdc++6 
libisccfg30                       libtasn1-3 
libkeyutils1                      libtext-charwidth-perl 
libklibc                          libtext-iconv-perl 
libkrb53                          libtext-wrapi18n-perl
liblocale-gettext-perl            libusb-0.1-4 
liblwres30                        libuuid1 
libmagic1                         libwrap0 
libncurses5                       login
libncursesw5                      logrotate
libnewt0.52                       lsb-base 
libpam-foreground                 lzma 
libpam-modules                    makedev
libpam-runtime                    man-db 
libpam0g                          manpages 
libparse-debianchangelog-perl     mawk 
libpopt0                          mime-support 
libreadline5                      mktemp 
libselinux1                       mount
libsepol1                         mtr-tiny 
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a                nano 
libslang2                         ncurses-base 
libss2                            ncurses-bin
libssl0.9.8                       net-tools
libstdc++6                        netbase
libtasn1-3                        openssh-client 
libtext-charwidth-perl            openssh-server 
libtext-iconv-perl                passwd 
libtext-wrapi18n-perl             perl 
libtimedate-perl                  perl-base
liburi-perl                       perl-modules 
libuuid1                          procps 
libvolume-id0                     psmisc 
libwrap0                          python-minimal 
locales                           python2.5-minimal
login                             readline-common
logrotate                         sed
lsb-base                          startup-tasks
makedev                           sudo 
man-db                            sysklogd 
manpages                          system-services
mawk                              sysv-rc
mktemp                            sysvutils
module-init-tools                 tar
mount                             tcpd 
mtr-tiny                          tzdata 
nano                              ubuntu-keyring 
ncurses-base                      ucf
ncurses-bin                       update-inetd 
net-tools                         upstart
netbase                           upstart-compat-sysv
openssh-client                    upstart-logd 
openssh-server                    util-linux 
passwd                            uuid-runtime 
perl                              vim-common 
perl-base                         vim-tiny 
perl-modules                      whiptail 
procps                            zlib1g 
psmisc
python-minimal
python2.4-minimal 
python2.5-minimal 
readline-common 
screen
sed 
slang1a-utf8
ssh 
sudo
sysklogd
sysv-rc 
sysvinit
sysvutils 
tar 
tcpd
telnet
time
tzdata
udev
update-inetd
util-linux
vim 
vim-common
vim-runtime 
volumeid
wget
whiptail
zlib1g 

well, just from looking at the list of packages, I don't see why the hardy disk image is almost 50% larger than the gutsy image…….. I mean, it contains fewer packages……… :oops:

Again, not that it's a matter of life and death… just wanna know better about what's the difference.

It could be stuff like APT's deb file cache (/var/cache/apt).

The 7.10 image has a 32MB journal and the 8.04 image has a 128MB journal. There are some other differences too. Compare with tune2fs.

@pclissold:

Lists of what is installed in the Linode distros:

... snip ...

Is this listed anywhere at linode.com? Would be great if it was.

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