How to verify between lite & full version of jessie

[ibx]

Is there a way to verify that my sd card has jessie lite?

If I enter: cat /etc/os-release I get back that VERSION= 8 (jessie) but I know that I loaded the lite version image.

How can I confirm this if I forget later on?

[Gomoto]

df

[DirkS]

df

Please explain how this can detect the difference.
And don't say size of rootfs, because a 'beefed up' Lite could easily be smaller than a 'slimmed down' full Jessie

[ShiftPlusOne]

I don't remember the file name off the top of my head, but take a look at /etc/rpi-issue (maybe it's just issue). If it says stage 2, then it's lite. Stage 4 is the full image.

[ShiftPlusOne]

By the way, why do you ask? It's the same distro, so I don't see why os-release would be different. And as you've said, you can build up the lite image or strip down the full image.

[ibx]

Thanks for your replies.

I had picked up a couple more SD cards that were on sale and (before labeling them) got confused what was loaded on them. Mostly due to the fact that I've been play around with openELEC, Coder, MotionPi and Python, bash, etc, etc. My learning curve is at the steepest point, even though I got my first RPi B+ over a year ago. There's a lot to learn.

I had spent some time over the last couple of weeks searching the web for an answer to no avail. Again part of the problem is I just get distracted when something catches my interest like, just this week when I came across Coder. Now I'm back at html and I'm not a programmer.

I suppose it's not hugely important just wondering if there was a way.

And I think I came up with a quick way to get back the full memory of a SD card. I had a difficult time getting back the full 4 GB or 8,16 GB on a card until I now do a low level format using my old Canon PowerShot camera. The best part it's faster that any laptop.

[km_eriksen]

As already said you eventually end up in the same place beefing up Lite or stripping down Default.

To see how far you have come, run:
dpkg --get-selections
But make some coffee before analysing output.

You might like "dpkg --set-selections" as well. See "man dpkg".