6.4 Merge window, part 1

Posted May 4, 2023 4:45 UTC (Thu) by knurd (subscriber, #113424)
In reply to: 6.4 Merge window, part 1 by adobriyan
Parent article: 6.4 Merge window, part 1

>> make sure to have 12 Gigabyte free space in your home directory
> It can't be _that_ bad. x86_64 allmodconfig is like 5 GiB?

Unless you have debug symbols enabled, then it IIRC a lot more. And they are (a) enabled in the .configs of many distro kernels (which will be the base in a lot of cases) and (b) something the user might or might not want. That's why the text further down below elaborates on that (and the implications for the required storage space) and ignores that in the TLDR.

If you have a idea how to handle that better I'm all ears.

Maybe the aspect "debug symbols" is important enough to be brought up in the TLDR in general. Not sure.