<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If it was me, I would stick with the latest LTS releases (24.04 currently), unless there is a very compelling reason not to.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For example, an application or a version of an application that is not present in the latest LTS version.</div></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">That way, you don't do major upgrades for a couple of years, so less disruption.</div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Regarding snap, you can easily remove it from the server version, and Xubuntu as well.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Run the command: </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">snap list</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Then from that list, one by one do:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">sudo snap remove foo</div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Then finally do:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">sudo apt purge snap</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">That is it.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I am curious about what is eating up space.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Execute this:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">sudo du -ahd1 / | sort -h</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Then go to the directory with the most space, and do the same there.</div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 1:13\u202fAM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm trying to setup Debian/Ubuntu distro, small size, text-only, no <br>
desktop, in VirtualBox. So, I tried "Ubuntu Server 25.10", because <br>
website says 2.5GB should be enough. Well, fresh install takes up 7GB. <br>
The only optional thing I included is ssh server.<br>
<br>
Am I doing something wrong?<br>
What do you remember when you setup your Ubuntu Server?<br><br></blockquote></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin</div></div>