Bug 14612

Summary:	change minimum and full storage requirements / recommendations for Mageia installs
Product:	Websites	Reporter:	Florian Hubold <doktor5000>
Component:	www.mageia.org	Assignee:	Atelier Team <atelier-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000, filip.komar, lebarhon, marja11, yvesbrungard
Version:	trunk
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.mageia.org/support/
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Description Florian Hubold 2014-11-19 19:30:52 CET

At https://www.mageia.org/support/ the current requirements state:

Hardware Requirements

[snip]

Storage (HDD): 1GB for a minimal installation, 6GB for a full setup;

1GB should not be recommended for a minimal installation. 5GB should be the absolute minimum that we recommend and support.

And 6GB for a "full" setup - with that partition size, the installation will quickly become full in another meaning of the word.
This should be changed to _at least_ 10GB for casual use, but better would probably be 20GB if people install bigger packages / things like games, which are several GB in size alone.

Quick comparison with FedoraÂ¹ shows they recommend 10GB as a bare minimum, this sounds sane to recommend. It's a much bigger hassle for novice and even intermediate users to repartition and reinstall, or to resize partitions via some life media.

Even DebianÂ² suggests 5GB as minimum size for a desktop install.


Hence I'm suggesting to change this to:

Hardware Requirements

[snip]

Storage (HDD): 5GB for a minimal installation, 20GB for a casual setup;

A hint should also be added, that custom installations are possible, which requires less space but this should only be attented by intermediate users - or something along those lines.


1: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Quick_Start_Guide/Requirements.html
2: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch03s04.html.en

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Florian Hubold 2014-11-19 19:32:07 CET

CC: (none) => doktor5000, lebarhon, marja11, yves.brungard_mageia

Comment 1 Florian Hubold 2014-11-19 19:34:59 CET

Ahh and it should be added that this is the size only for the root ( / ) partition, not for the overall installation. 5GB for multiple partitions including swap would be a really bad idea.

Comment 2 André DESMOTTES 2014-11-19 21:43:31 CET

When we are speaking about minimal size, that imply only one partition and no swap. In this case 5 or 6 GB are enough.
For a full setup, we must consider three partitions but only / and swap can be advised. /home is too different from an user to another one and is about the same for any os (free or not). I think also that some extra place is needed for updates from n to n+1 releases. So, for a casual setup I would say: 15GB + /home

Comment 3 Filip Komar 2015-04-29 22:23:05 CEST

Please reopen if needed.

http://gitweb.mageia.org/web/www/commit/?id=aa3cf0460d8a0548e1f62a0665e7114831468097

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => filip.komar
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 4 Florian Hubold 2015-05-02 02:02:33 CEST

Looks good, thanks :)