I installed server 10.10 with LAMP+OpenSSH. It is about 1.1GB. Can I reduce the total size of the server?
AFTER SOME EXPERIMENTS
The full LAMP server is under 1.0gb
/dev/sda1 7.5G 914M 6.3G 13% /It contains PHP/Mysql/Apache and Gearman-job-server with PHP support + libFAM
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First off, consider using 32-bits if you are space conscious. The binaries are smaller, as is the memory footprint, and if you have a small disk footprint system, its likely you won't even have 4GB of RAM to take advantage of the 64-bit memory management.
If you just choose the "LAMP Server" task then base system + all of that can be a lot. However, LAMP itself is just Linux, Apache, Mysql, and PHP, so really all you need are the bits to tie those together. That would be:
mysql-server php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5
Also you can try installing it with --no-install-recommends" which will avoid bringing in things that are normally used, but not absolutely necessary, for the operation of a LAMP site (like SSL, and the php CLI command).
SO you can run
apt-get --no-install-recommends install mysql-server php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5
When I do this in a 64-bit EC2 10.10 instance I get this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 15G 793M 14G 6% /
none 290M 108K 290M 1% /dev
none 297M 0 297M 0% /dev/shm
none 297M 52K 297M 1% /var/run
none 297M 0 297M 0% /var/lockAnd on a 32-bit instance:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 15G 761M 14G 6% /
none 294M 108K 294M 1% /dev
none 298M 0 298M 0% /dev/shm
none 298M 52K 298M 1% /var/run
none 298M 0 298M 0% /var/lockBTW, if you're curious where the space is used up:
sudo du -m /* | sort -rn | head -20Will show you the top 20 (the numbers are MB of space used)
2LAMP server when compressed is of about 65 MB.It's about 200 MB when uncompressed.I am talking about the LAMP that the XAMMP people provide.UBUNTU installes a lot of stuff that it is considering to belong to the base... by taking away manually packages you get it down more...Sure,you can remove unnecessary libraries as long as you know what you do.You need to check what program depends on them and if you need those programs.if you have a library in ubuntu,it is because of a dependency..
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