From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 1 21:49:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EE316A421 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:49:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B339613C447 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:48:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so769563uge for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:48:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aWiL3SkHLNXMUYhHLh4DyrGHT+Quh7tW+A5v6TzUKKxdHyDqKxUzCEMeW4DeJ+Esw4SAGusp7dKwy4Ut6hL/9XawgE0V9Yqt9U2JxOMauhi5nQ20Ukf1QeupIVeFzINEzMqWyRBasyXqiSxE2wAnLZXYPxn+Z6Bl1rL6xUjNfJA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QYMH6E+Ur9bORDYf0g8boKv8X2MhBTLk6HHWrUng5R+g0hFkkKqKmwAP/BRDn3ytSf6iLxNJk3lmyUfSnZw+No4URtR6wc98zdi2LVRyy3X9wzZiK07Bp6qrYm2ZhN61VfZl+iXBiZpeAXKGpz143d8n9fnccgD3HYv0nT19MOM= Received: by 10.82.175.17 with SMTP id x17mr11615464bue.1183326538309; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.6 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 14:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:48:57 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Dmitry Morozovsky" In-Reply-To: <20070702000236.S81781@woozle.rinet.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47d0403c0706301618l6821d2c3n4ac0510fde66f834@mail.gmail.com> <47d0403c0707010938i2af1c0a1gc26da2652e4648a8@mail.gmail.com> <20070701204053.H77247@woozle.rinet.ru> <47d0403c0707011043y6d3d8819yeb807f08eb136d69@mail.gmail.com> <20070702000236.S81781@woozle.rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended size of root partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:49:00 -0000 On 01/07/07, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Ben Kaduk wrote: > > BK> > BK> Thanks! What command did you use to do the decompression (and what > BK> > BK> was the source from which to decompress)? I figured that doing an > BK> > BK> extraction would be the best way (since it directly tests the object > BK> > BK> in question), but I couldn't come up with something quick. > > [snip all other] > > For quick estimation without instalation media, you can use jail install > procedure: > > export DESTDIR=/path/to/jail (or setenv in [t]sch) > mkdir -p ${DESTDIR} > cd /usr/src > make installworld distribution installkernel > > which gives you copy of freshly installed system ready for jail run... > Is it faster than: # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 0 # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /vcdrom --(leave root so's not to worry about typos here!)-- % cd /some/scratch/directory % cat /vcdrom/6.2-RELEASE/base/base.?? | tar zxvf - . . . (I like to watch) % cat /vcdrom/6.2-RELEASE/kernels/generic.?? | tar zxvf - . . . (pages and pages of pathnames) % rm -rf usr/ var/ tmp/ % du -d0 -h ./ 36M % ? (this assumes that per sysinstall default /usr /var and /tmp are their own filesystems) -- --