Bug 443694
Summary: | Missing hard disk space requirement in release notes | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora Documentation | Reporter: | Josh Cogliati <jrincayc> |
Component: | release-notes | Assignee: | Release Notes Tracker <relnotes> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Karsten Wade <kwade> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | devel | CC: | jrincayc |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9preview/en_US/sn-ArchSpecific.html#sn-ArchSpecific-x64-hw | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2008-04-25 05:38:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Josh Cogliati
2008-04-22 21:32:01 UTC
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. Okay. Believe it or not, I managed to read those paragraphs three times and missed the "The complete packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space". How I managed to do that is reading the first paragraph "The disk space requirement*s*", and think, okay, I am looking for a list of different disk space requirements, like back in the day of fedora core 3 ( http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/fc3/x86/ ) Then I see the second paragraph "In practical terms, additional space requirements" and think, okay, this paragraph is about the additional space need beyond the listed amounts, and head to the next paragraph. The third paragraph is talking more about additional disk space requirements such as for the home directories. So, we have three paragraphs 1) look for the disk space requirements later 2) You need more than them to install 3) you need more than the requirement to actually store your own data. A simple fix for this could be that the 9 GB sentence be the first one and drop the "listed below": """The complete packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space. However, additional disk space is required during the 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. Additional space is also required for any user data, and at least 5% free space should be maintained for proper system operation. """ A better fix might be to leave the paragraphs as are and add something like this to the bottom (I don't know the exact numbers): 2 GB minimum install 4 GB Basic Install additional 2 GB Office and Productivity software additional 3 GB Development Software additional 1 GB server software 9 GB complete packages So, I guess my request is to at least rephrase the section so it is more obvious that 9 GB is the complete DVD install, and possibly add more size possibilities. I went for a variation on the first, because we still have the challenge of predicting package sets for spins. We might instead suggest that spins publish their min/max install sizes? Thanks for catching this one. After rewording it tonight, it was obvious to me that we left crufty wording in there from when there used to be a list of the install min/max (back when there was one package set to install from.) This is now fixed on the wiki (Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific*) and in the XML in CVS; these changes should appear in the GA notes thanks to the release slip. |