From 10be85cb7ec247c4ed4054336bfc3f1be5e1c5eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Bernard <59966492+mbtools@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 06:41:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add note about disk space requirement to contribution
 guidelines (#4295)

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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 13fe52944..ec5d9bfde 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ The Verdaccio project is split into several areas, the first three hosted in the
 
 ## Prepare local setup {#local-setup}
 
+**Note**: The size of the Verdaccio project is quite significant. Unzipped it is about 33 MB. However, a full build with all node_modules installed takes about **2.8 GB** of disk space (~190k files)!
+
 Verdaccio uses [pnpm](https://pnpm.io) as the package manager for development in this repository.
 
 If you are using pnpm for the first time the [pnpm configuration documentation](https://pnpm.io/configuring) may be useful to avoid any potential problems with the following steps.