[Nix-dev] how much disk do I need ?

Roelof Wobben rwobben at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 16 10:59:56 CET 2013


Thanks, 

I will make a partition of 30G. I have a disk of 70G so no problems.
I have a problem with installing NixOs but therefore I made a issue (bug).

Roelof

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> From: phreedom at yandex.ru
> To: nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:40:44 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] how much disk do I need ?
>
> On Friday, November 15, 2013 08:32:47 PM Roelof Wobben wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> With the help of Bjorn I want to try to make Cinnamon 2.x avaible.
>>
>> But my question is
>>
>> How big must the partition be to install NixOS and have space for
>> building Cinnamon.
>>
>> I have 4G memory. Do I still need a swap partition.
>
> One gcc instance rarely needs more than 0.5gb, so the RAM requirement would be
> 0.5*cpu_core_count. For serious development work, 20GB of HDD space sounds
> like a sane minimum, and you are very unlikely to actually find a use for more
> than 30GB. You can use less than 20 GB, but I don't think your convenience is
> worth 5-7GB saved even at SSD prices.
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