[Bug 1234724] New: Installer page declares "Over 40GB of free hard drive space" are required for installation, but 6 - 9 GB suffice
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234724 Bug ID: 1234724 Summary: Installer page declares "Over 40GB of free hard drive space" are required for installation, but 6 - 9 GB suffice Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.6 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation Assignee: yast2-maintainers@suse.de Reporter: kaykaykay123@gmail.com QA Contact: jsrain@suse.com Target Milestone: --- Found By: --- Blocker: --- Pages https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/#download and https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.6/#download at "System Requirements" heading declare that "Over 40GB of free hard drive space" are required for installation. In fact, it is possible to install openSUSE on 6 - 9 GB part of hard drive and get dual boot with Windows on 32 GB drive. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234724 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234724#c2 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mrmazda@earthlink.net --- Comment #2 from Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> --- BTRFS is rather demanding compared to reliable and trusted older filesystems. I don't use it. I've stuck with EXT4 for / and separate /home/. The following is from just one of more than 80 current TW, Slowroll and 15.6 installations here, with / as small as 6.4G, and only two with more than 8G for /: # pinxi -Saz --vs --za --hostname ### pinxi is devel version of inxi pinxi 3.3.36-15 (2024-12-17) System: Host: hp750 Kernel: 6.4.0-150600.23.30-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 ... Console: pty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: XDM Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.6 # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7994052 1011860 6627088 153336 757588 6982192 Swap: 787148 0 787148 # df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda21 8042140 3745744 3878950 50% / # ls -rtgG vmlinuz-* | egrep -v 'cur|prv|-s1' -rw-r--r-- 1 14076832 Jan 19 2024 vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.4-default -rw-r--r-- 1 14181408 Mar 18 2024 vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.10-default -rw-r--r-- 1 14189408 Apr 22 2024 vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.16-default -rw-r--r-- 1 14191584 Jun 12 2024 vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.21-default -rw-r--r-- 1 14181152 Jun 19 07:43 vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.23.7-default -rw-r--r-- 1 14198912 Oct 2 05:24 vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.23.25-default -rw-r--r-- 1 14166080 Dec 10 06:34 vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.23.30-default # Thus IMO, 40G ought to be qualified. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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