F21 Workstation System Requirements - Storage

[Richard Hughes]

On 4 September 2014 08:14, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why would updates grow the size of system by 50% ?

Pathological case is this:

* Install Fedora 19 right now, just before F21 is released
* Basically every package on the system gets updated

I think allowing 2Gb for updates is conservative, if anything. After
the update is complete, you're right, the installed size of the system
is only a few hundred Mb larger than what you installed, but to
download and apply the updates you need get all those packages ahead
of time; hence the large extra space required.

For me, 10Gb seems entirely reasonable these days for an entire OS and
all the apps you're every likely to install. Compare to Windows 8,
where OS + MS Office + Corel is much greater than 4 times this.

Richard