What is the installed size of PlayOnLinux?

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What is the installed size of PlayOnLinux?

Post by Ronshere »

I have installed PlayOnLinux in Mint Mate and I am very surprised to find
that it is taking up 446MB of disk space. I have examined every file and fold
and there is very little there, I have not even used it or added anything to it.
it just takes up a lot of space.
Has anyone checked the size of their PlayOnLinux installation?
what is the size of it?
Why does it take up so much space?
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Re: What is the installed size of PlayOnLinux?

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I'm not sure how much it takes up but it reservse space to make virtual drives to actually install programs in. Then I suppose that may vary as you add programs and new virtual drives.
you can get an idea for which programs use the most space with this command in a terminal.

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du . | sort -nr | head -n10
That will give you the top 10 in which ever folder you in at the moment. if you want total results you can leave off the | head -n10 at the end.
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Re: What is the installed size of PlayOnLinux?

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You did not say, where those 446 MB have been stored, but I assume, that you mean the profile. So those are most likely the files inside of the subfolders windows and Program Files with the basic parts of the emulated Windows system.
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