Out of space

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Mo, 2016-08-01 at 19:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
> 
> What does "5 GB of hard-drive space" and "work well with less. For
> example, a netbook with an 8 GB SSD will work well" mean?
> 
> 8 GB is less than 5 GB?
> 
> There's just the hint "although there wont be much room for saving
> stuff directly onto the drive so cloud storage services could help a
> lot", but what does it exactly mean.
> 
it means that after installing your OS will already occupy 4-5GB ... so
you have 3GB spare space... if you now work with the device for a year
or two your space goes pretty low ...

due to the nature of deb based upgrades you need to download a lot of
stuff on an upgrade (note that the wiki does not talk about upgrades or
the space needed at all, only about installation requirements) and need
even more space for unpacking the packages etc etc ... 

to make a proper upgrade on such a device you should move the personal
data to an external disk (or cloud storage) to obtain the needed space.

one of the reasons snappy exists are btw exactly these issues ... 
snap systems (will) use squashfs deltas against the readonly os snap
and only need a fraction of space (OS upgrades are also a matter of
miinutes, not hours and you can completely roll back to the former
install in case you notice issues)

ciao

	oli
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