Comment 1 for bug 9459

I reinstalled twice. The first time without download packages, I saw that my
free disk space falls to about three megs just before ubuntu-desktop sets up and
frees something like 350 megs of space. My hard drive is partitioned by the
installer into a 129 meg swap and a 1.9 meg partition. It would seem that the
installation requires more than 1.8 gigs of harddrive space.

When I reinstalled, I made my partition 50 megs smaller and saw that the drive
space fall to zero early in the setup phase (but not in the unpacking phase)
Most packages were set up with no drive space left. I again go no error but was
shown the welcome to ubuntu page after all was finished. I am assuming that
these packages are not set up properly.

As more security updates occurr, that much more disk space will be required. If
there will soon be, say, 120 megs worth of updates, people with smaller
harddrives or someone who only creates a 1.8 gig partition to try out Ubuntu
will run into trouble. Perhaps the recommendations about free disk space should
be reviewed and the free space should be checked during the install.