How much disk will you need?
The general answer is a little more than you think. Your virtual
system has a full Linux install. This will consume about 1.05 gigabytes. In
addition to this, you will need some scratch-space to store items uploaded and
downloaded. Finally, you will typically reserve a third of the available space
either for generated "file saves" of all or part of your system, or
for a partition for real-time snapshotting (if applicable, see the backup
section). In addition to the above, Linux processes frequently halt when free-space
in any file-system other than the root system falls below 10%
The following is a general table of sizes and usable "production"
space:
Disk size |
Free space |
Recommended
"production" space |
2gb |
0.95gb |
0.32gb |
4gb |
2.95gb |
0.94gb |
8gb |
6.95gb |
2.10gb |
16gb |
14.95gb |
4.50gb |
32gb |
30.95gb |
9.30gb |
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