[relnotes] [Bug 443694] Missing hard disk space requirement in release notes

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Summary: Missing hard disk space requirement in release notes


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443694


kwade at redhat.com changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |NEEDINFO




------- Additional Comments From kwade at redhat.com  2008-04-22 18:27 EST -------
Looking at that page at the phrase you quoted, it appears three times on that
page, once for each major architecture:

  'The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space
  taken up by Fedora 9 after installation is complete. However,
  additional disk space is required during installation to support the
  installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to
  the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img (on Installation Disc 1) plus
  the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.

  In practical terms, additional space requirements may range from as
  little as 90 MiB for a minimal installation to as much as an
  additional 175 MiB for an "everything" installation. The complete
  packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space.

  Additional space is also required for any user data, and at least 5%
  free space should be maintained for proper system operation.'

As you may have noted, a few releases ago we stopped trying to be exact on
minimum and maximum install sizes for each release.  Previous to that when
shipping Fedora was "Fedora Core", it had been possible to predict to the MiB
how much space an "everything" install took up.  After the end of the
"everything" install, the combining of internal and external package
repositories, and the dawning of the age of the Fedora spin, it stopped being
possible to predict what the size of the particular install a person had in
their hands would take up.  At that point, we adjusted the content to give the
range, as above.

So, I really don't think this is a bug in the release notes, but I'm curious to
hear back from you what is insufficient in those notes.  Perhaps there are some
additional clues, pointers, or formulas we could be offering users.


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