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

Sat Feb 9 11:47:58 CET 2013

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.
+
+-- 
+Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/
+Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org
+Microsoft is for computers what McDonald is for French gastronomy
+