I have a very small disk in my netbook.
So I decided to offload all development files into chroot on an external drive.
What will take less space initially, debootstrap installation or Ubuntu Core image?
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12.04
Short:
Ubuntu Core
Detailed:
On current 12.04.3 installation (df/du output):
debootstrap 210352
Core 110424
Core image doesn't have these packages:
apt-utils bzip2 console-setup cron debconf-i18n dmsetup eject file iputils-ping isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common kbd keyboard-configuration less libapt-inst1.4 libdevmapper1.02.1 libexpat1 libfribidi0 liblocale-gettext-perl liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 libmagic1 libnewt0.52 libpopt0 libsqlite3-0 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl lockfile-progs logrotate lsb-release mime-support net-tools netbase netcat-openbsd ntpdate python python2.7 resolvconf rsyslog sudo ubuntu-minimal ucf ureadahead vim-common vim-tiny whiptail xkb-data
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1Keep in mind that the compressed rootfs of "Ubuntu Core" has almost doubled in size (amd64) 63M since release 14.04, before 14.04 core rootfs was 38M. Uncompressed Ubuntu Core 14.04 rootfs is even much larger. Note: rootfs excludes the kernel. – Pro Backup Aug 15 '14 at 09:07
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As of vivid, the Ubuntu Core image is a debootstrap minbase image and some very light postprocessing.
Source: I've compared both.
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