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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Tuesday 03 May 2011 à 15:59 +0800, PCMan a écrit :
> 
> Just some thoughts.
> Will it be better to run "df" periodially at a several second interval
> during installation to get a more accurate number?
> So we can know the disk usage every second during the installation
> process.
> The maximum of the values collected plus a safety margin is the
> minimal disk space "required" for installation.
> After installation, we run df again to see how much disk space is
> used. Then, we reserved some space, maybe 256mb for swap and some
> space for other apps, maybe 512 MB. This value is the disk space
> "suggested".
> We need more accurate number by measurement rather than by assumption.
> Is anyone willing to do this? 

I'm sure the measurement is already implemented in Ubuntu ISO build
system. The problem is that Ubiquity doesn't use it properly :( And we
are the only ones who care about installation on a 4Gb hard drive :)

Regards,
Julien Lavergne