[Wikitech-l] Free Disk Space needed for import

[wiki]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I have in mind the English wikipedia dump. 

wiki writes: 

> 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 - 
> 
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