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I have one 1TB and a second one 500GB SSD

What are you measuring?

How large an install people use for MX

Sparky wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 3:54 pm I have one 1TB and a second one 500GB SSD

How much of that is personal files? Almost all of it, right? As such, it's not meaningful.

How big are each of your operating system directories? You can add /home or any other personal directories you may have created for personal files. This will give you a good idea of what's going on below the water line.

Sparky wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 4:11 pm How large an install people use for MX

10 GB is big enough for the OS. 16 GB makes more sense giving a little room to grow in. Keep most of your personal files somewhere else just for the sake of easy management and not wasting real-estate.

That's interesting since the lower end Chromebooks which only have 16Gb cannot install some Linux for lack of space. ChromeOS maintains a provision on the drive leaving only about 10Gb.

Mine is on my whole hard drive which is 256GB on my Thinkpad

hello sparky here is two. If you are looking for machines guilty of wasting space, then you found me.
MX 19 xfce
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 12.45 GiB (0.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA200 size: 1.82 TiB

MX 19 kde
Drives: Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 7.89 GiB (7.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3120813AS size: 111.79 GiB

Greetings All


Largest installation would appear to be right in the MSFT vaporware arena
By contrast my smallest installation is a mere 1.85GB ...
5GB is all that's required for these 'mini-testing' O/S's
Admittedly, from one of our smaller, more infamous Respins
Personal data is always elsewhere - for all the obvious reasons

Regards

Jack

without /home ~10gb
with /home ~430gb