F21 Workstation System Requirements - Storage

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Elad Alfassa wrote:

> > So, 4GB for base system, 

That assumes that the user of the installation will not want to add
anything at all.

> > plus 2GB for updates (there are a lot of them
> > during the lifetime of the product) [...]
> >
> > So I'd say 10GB minimal, 25GB recommended, standard "more is better"

10GB minimal sounds plausible. User can quickly lose space because of
cache/spool files, pre-downloaded/kept packages, /var/tmp (e.g. ABRT).

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:14:11 +0200, drago01 wrote:
 
> Why would updates grow the size of system by 50% ?

At Fedora, lots of them are _upgrades_, which not only replace packages
but add dependencies and increase in size. That's hard to predict, but a
simple change in a dependency-chain can pull in dozens of new packages
(not limited to the Ruby, Python, Java area).