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On 06/04/13 10:34, tom wrote: > > I know - I did have a full whack of Suse about 7 years ago - everything > came to less than 80Gig Yes, but SuSE isn't trying to be a "Universal" operating system. Basics of Debian mirror are ~800GB. http://www.debian.org/mirror/size So yes 57TB is more than they need for that, but mirror it and you are down to 28TB, add a bit of journalling, snapshots for point in time recovery, cloning for testing upgrades and such like. Maybe some backups or failover copies of the bug tracking, qa tools, build server images and the like, and I dare say one can fill it up quite quickly. I'm not clear if the figures above include the size of the debian archive. e.g. the set of packages (and meta-data) no longer required by current, or the old-stable release of Debian. Certainly I've used the archived copy of Debian packages a few times, mostly for creating an upgrade path for machines that should have been upgraded before, rather than doing a fresh install - probably would have been wiser to reinstall, but handy to know your way around it all just in case. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq