Fresh HA install double in size?

Installation
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Hi there

I just did a fresh HA install on a new 250 GB SSD (dedicated mini pc).

When I look at the old HA installation on my 16 GB SSD, I get this disk usage (HA OS 18.2, supervisor-2026-10.3):

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When I look at the new clean install, I get this disk usage - notice how the system takes up almost double the space (HA OS 18.3, supervisor-2026-10.4)??

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Is the new version so much bigger, or how to explain it?

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if you’re interested, I have a little guide here which explains how to check in detail what uses the space. This size seems normal to me. Unfortunately I cannot explain why it showed less before.

For comparison, this is how my HAOS test VM looks like after purging/repairing and rebooting

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All that is installed are these APPs and the HACS integration
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HA(OS) is just bloated. The HA image alone is ~3.5G

REPOSITORY                                        TAG         IMAGE ID       CREATED        SIZE      SHARED SIZE   UNIQUE SIZE   CONTAINERS
ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant   2026.10.4   9961f680e69c   3 days ago     3.47GB    187.7MB       3.28GB        1

The minimum recommend storage is 32G, by the way.