[OSM-dev] Planet file space requirements

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Linden Varley wrote:
> I was just wondering what the space requirements were for loading the whole planet file. I have about ~50GB free and am running out of space when running osm2pgsql in slim mode.

Yes, you will need about 70 GB.

> Also does slim mode create extra tables which don't get created in normal mode? i.e planet_osm_nodes , planet_osm_ways, planet_osm_rels

Yes. You can save a lot of disk space and import time if you work 
without --slim, however this requires at least 12 (?) GB of memory and 
makes it impossible to do differential updates.

Bye
Frederik

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