How much disk space does Cygwin require?
That depends, obviously, on what you’ve chosen to download and install. A full installation today is probably larger than 800MB installed, not including the package archives themselves nor the source code. After installation, the package archives remain in your “Local Package Directory”, by default the location of setup.exe. You may conserve disk space by deleting the subdirectories there. These directories will have very weird looking names, being encoded with their URLs (named ftp%3a%2f…). Of course, you can keep them around in case you want to reinstall a package. If you want to clean out only the outdated packages, Michael Chase has written a script called clean_setup.pl, available at http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/.
That depends, obviously, on what you’ve chosen to download and install. A full installation today is probably larger than 1 GB installed, not including the package archives themselves nor the source code. After installation, the package archives remain in your “Local Package Directory”, by default the location of setup.exe. You may conserve disk space by deleting the subdirectories there. These directories will have very weird looking names, being encoded with their URLs (named ftp%3a%2f…). Of course, you can keep them around in case you want to reinstall a package. If you want to clean out only the outdated packages, Michael Chase has written a script called clean_setup.pl, available at ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/unsupported/clean_setup.pl.
