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How much space does Archive & Install take?
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Oct 08, '03 12:36:39PM

Does Archive & Install merely archive the /Users folder, /Users/Library (and then install a "clean" system)? What can I expect as far as disk space required? I've got a 30GB HD, with 5GB available. Is this going to be enough to do an Archive and Install? It looks like my /Users folder is 15.95GB (Get Info from Finder running under a User w/o Admin access). Looks like I've got some housecleaning to do! ;-p

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How much space does Archive & Install take?
Authored by: SOX on Oct 08, '03 01:55:50PM

its likely to fit in 5gb. but you can get a pretty clos estimate by typing:

sudo du -sk /bin /sbin /usr /var /Library /Shared /Developer /System



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heres the right number
Authored by: SOX on Oct 08, '03 01:59:19PM

oops my mistake. it moves the Developer and shared folders so these dont take up any (new) room. the additional space is simply the space required for the install.
the following should be upper bounds:

745168 /usr
8632 /etc/
8 /var
7848 /bin
3680 /sbin
1466368 /Library



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It does not touch the /Users folder except for shared
Authored by: SOX on Oct 08, '03 02:11:24PM

Your /Users/<home>
folders will not be moved, so dont count this in your total.
the /Users/Shared folder will be archived, but since the one that replaces it has zero byte contents it does not require free space on the disk.



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