| 20 | | <para os="b">A minimal system requires around 1.5 gigabytes (GB). |
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| 21 | | This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile the packages. |
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| 22 | | However, if the CLFS system is intended to be the primary Linux system, |
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| 23 | | additional software will probably be installed which will require |
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| 24 | | additional space (2-3 GB). The CLFS system itself will not take up this |
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| 25 | | much room. A large portion of this requirement is to provide sufficient |
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| 26 | | free temporary storage. Compiling packages can require a lot of disk space |
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| 27 | | which will be reclaimed after the package is installed.</para> |
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| | 20 | <para os="b">A minimal system requires around 2.5 gigabytes (GB). |
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| | 21 | This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile the packages. The CLFS |
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| | 22 | system itself will not take up this much room. A large portion of this requirement |
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| | 23 | is to provide sufficient free temporary storage. Compiling packages can require a |
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| | 24 | lot of disk space which will be reclaimed after the package is installed. If the |
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| | 25 | CLFS system is intended to be the primary Linux system, additional software will |
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| | 26 | probably be installed which will require additional space (2-10 GB). </para> |
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