It this physical or a VM?

I face the same issue on both sides, but I found that the pre-prepared cloud images for VMs are already configured much smaller

Installing from scratch is not good enough apparently, or there is some flag in the installer that I am missing

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 1:11 AM William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm trying to setup Debian/Ubuntu distro, small size, text-only, no
desktop, in VirtualBox.  So, I tried "Ubuntu Server 25.10", because
website says 2.5GB should be enough.  Well, fresh install takes up 7GB.
The only optional thing I included is ssh server.

Am I doing something wrong?
What do you remember when you setup your Ubuntu Server?
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