[Wikitech-l] Free Disk Space needed for import

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Hello. 

I'm a newbie who wants to start playing with the xml dumps.  I've found 
instructions here and there on how to import these.  I'd like to seek 
guidance though as to how much free disk space one is required to have for 
the MySql import to succeed?  i.e. after I have already installed LAMP + 
Mediawiki, and already allocated space for the bzip file and the converted 
import statements file, roughly how much more space is needed? 

Thank you! 

  - sam -