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<H2><A NAME=SECTION00384000000000000000>1.8.4 Hard drive space requirements</A></H2>
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Of course, to install Linux, you'll need to have some amount of free
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space on your hard drive. Linux will support multiple hard drives in
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the same machine; you can allocate space for Linux across multiple drives
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if necessary.
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The <em>amount</em> of hard drive space that you will require depends greatly
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on your needs and the amount of software that you're installing. Linux
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is relatively small as UNIX implementations go; you could run a
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complete system in 10 to 20 megabytes of space on your drive. However, if you
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want to have room for expansion, and for larger packages such as X Windows,
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you will need more space. If you plan to allow multiple users to use the
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machine, you will need to allocate storage for their files.
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Also, unless you have a large amount of physical RAM (16 megabytes or more),
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you will more than likely want to allocate swap space, to be used as virtual
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RAM. We will discuss all of the details of installing and using swap space in
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Section <A HREF="node68.html#secinstallswap">2.2.3</A>.
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Each distribution of Linux usually comes with some literature that should help
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you to gauge the precise amount of required storage depending on the amount
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of software you plan to install. You can run a minimal system with less than
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20 megabytes; a complete system with all of the bells and whistles in
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80 megabytes or less; and a very large system with room for many users and
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space for future expansion in the range of 100-150 megabytes. Again, these
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figures are meant only as a ballpark approximation; you will have to look
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at your own needs and goals in order to determine your specific storage
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requirements.
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<I>Matt Welsh <BR>
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mdw@sunsite.unc.edu</I>
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