[Mageia-discuss] Help texts for Beginner in Mageia Wiki, in English

[Pierre Jarillon]

Le samedi 9 février 2013 03:55:30, macxi a écrit :
> > The size of the / partition in the example is too small.
> >
> > The size used on the root partitions of my disks, is:
> >   4.7GB  5.2GB  4.5GB  4.4GB(old Mdv)  6.7GB  6.6GB

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Hd_partition_in_Mageia_2_for_beginners#Create_ROOT_Partition

> > At least tell that 4.8GB is the minimum recommended size.
> 
> I agree with you, I think very little, I prefer with 6 GB, but the site of 
> Mageia says that the minimum requirement is 1 GB: 
> 
> | https://www.mageia.org/en/support/
> 
> "Hardware Requirements: 
> (...)
> Storage (HDD): 1GB for a minimal installation, 6GB for a full setup;" 
> 
> I don't know how to improve this text:
> ("the minimum can even be 2GB, but more than 6GB would be reasonable. More 
> than 20GB is not needed".) 

Be careful, I am not a native english speaker, but my opinion is:

In special cases, the minimum can even be 2GB. As a standard installation 
needs 4 to 5GB, consider that 6GB is the minimum size and 10 to 12GB is 
recommended.  More than 20GB is not needed.

Perhaps an explanation:
The system needs to use temporary and useful files in /tmp and in /var (log and 
spooling files). A good advice is to have at least 1GB free.

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