[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-12 Thread leif
On 12 Aug., 12:02, Harald Schilly wrote: > FWIW, i just did a du -sch * on a recently built 4.7.1-rc2. The total is > just 2.5G and the filesystem is ext3. devel: 1.1G, local: 1G. Which might change over time... ;-) > I have an additional idea. If you have a recent linux kernel and want to > sa

[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-12 Thread Harald Schilly
FWIW, i just did a du -sch * on a recently built 4.7.1-rc2. The total is just 2.5G and the filesystem is ext3. devel: 1.1G, local: 1G. I have an additional idea. If you have a recent linux kernel and want to save space via the filesystem, you can try btrfs with its builtin compression. Just add

[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread leif
On 11 Aug., 19:26, leif wrote: > * I for example get the following for a Sage 4.7.1.rc0 and 4.7.rc2 > installation, respectively: > > 950M    devel/sage-11577 > 105M    devel/sage-11602 > 238M    devel/sage-11602-v2 > 288M    devel/sage-11602-v3 > 409M    devel/sage-11602-v4 > 119M    devel/sage-1

[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread leif
On 11 Aug., 15:17, John Cremona wrote: > In this case there's no chance of making any such changes, and I do > not really need to anyway.  All that was important from the point of > view of Sage was to check that there had not been a 4-fold increase in > size from 4.6.2 to 4.7;  which there was no

Re: [sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread John Cremona
In this case there's no chance of making any such changes, and I do not really need to anyway. All that was important from the point of view of Sage was to check that there had not been a 4-fold increase in size from 4.6.2 to 4.7; which there was not. John > > In case it is, that's easy to sol

[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread leif
On 11 Aug., 14:12, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-08-11 12:41, John Cremona wrote: > > After building Sage the amount of filespace used is (as we all know) > > rather large.  I was just checking a 4.7 install, which is not used > > for any development pusposes, and is on a machine which I use but

[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread leif
On 11 Aug., 13:09, leif wrote: > On 11 Aug., 12:50, John Cremona wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:41 AM, John Cremona > > wrote: > > > After building Sage the amount of filespace used is (as we all know) > > > rather large.  I was just checking a 4.7 install, which is not used > > > for

[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread leif
On 11 Aug., 12:50, John Cremona wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:41 AM, John Cremona wrote: > > After building Sage the amount of filespace used is (as we all know) > > rather large.  I was just checking a 4.7 install, which is not used > > for any development pusposes, and is on a machine w

[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-11 Thread John Cremona
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:41 AM, John Cremona wrote: > After building Sage the amount of filespace used is (as we all know) > rather large.  I was just checking a 4.7 install, which is not used > for any development pusposes, and is on a machine which I use but do > not own, and where I was just