Before:
df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vgpool-lv_var 476G 239G 215G 53% /var
After repo_sync run (deprecated pkgs NOT purged):
/dev/mapper/vgpool-lv_var 476G 276G 179G 61% /var
I ran the repo_sync by hand before leaving work for the evening in a screen session. Here is the time info. YMMV depends on bandwidth etc. etc.
repo_sync run ended
real 189m24.841s
user 7m26.358s
sys 7m15.786s
There were 22 deprecated pkgs that were not voices cached (mostly xprotect etc.) I did a
repoutil --purge-product all-deprecated
Which removed those 22 updates. This left only the voices from 2013-07-24, 2012-05-13, and 2012-03-16 as deprecated items.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
I added all the new voices in one shot with
repoutil --add-product all stable
Then got rid of the deprecated ones without having to remove them from the catalogs via
repoutil --purge-product all-deprecated --force
This finally brought the final disk usage to:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tl;dr You need a few hours and about 37GB to download all the new voices. But the new voices alone actually take up less space than the old ones did.