I installed the version of Matlab and Simulink + all of the related packages of the version mentioned in the title on a 64GB Kingston microSD card on my laptop. The installation took forever, and in order to perform it successfully I had to change the default download directory in the installer script to the microSD-card using the cmd-command: "( location of downloaded MATLAB installer on my system drive)" -downloadFolder "Target folder on the SD-card". This is because my laptop system drive is too small to hold all of the 15GB of MATLAB goodness.
What baffles me is that after the installation my SD-card now has about 2GB of free space left. I thought that MATLAB + Simulink were supposed to take only a maximum of 15GB of space with all of the modules installed. Is this not correct? What could be causing this?
I checked for duplicate files using CCleaner, and the program found huge amounts of very small files that had at least 1 copy of them, but in a different directory. To give you an example, there are 2 copies of zlib1.dll in the \bin and \toolbox subfolders respectively. However, this structuring of the files seems intentional.
The program itself seems to run just fine, at a speed comparable to running it on a laptop that actually has an SSD larger than 32GB as a system drive (like mine). Is there anything I could do to reduce the installation size on the SD-card without having to download all of the full software package again? I kind of need the extra space on the SD-card for other uses as well besides storing a buggy installation of MATLAB.
