On 21 February 2010 03:43, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at ieee.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 18:37 -0600, donavan nelson wrote: >> I suspect if you tried with 6G you would significantly less than 5.1G >> used post install. > > Agreed, as previous tests showed. ?Doesn't help much with estimating the > minimum requirement if the OS won't install, and a practical system > needs some headroom anyway, so I don't think listing 6GB as a minimum > for a default install is out of line. > > Anybody want to take a crack at a recommended amount of disk space? ?I'd > say at least 20GB for /. ?My current KDE/GNOME/Development/Multimedia > desktop weighs in at 13GB. Thanks for all your testing Phil. I happily run a C-5 workstation with a total (physical) disk size of 25 GB. (And you know the sort of things I regularly do with it.) I guess the real question is: What was that section of the web page *really* intending to show when it was first written? Perhaps Donavan can remember? Alan.
