Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:57:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Tom Carrick <knyghtmare@knyghtmare.com> Cc: BigBrother <bigbrother@bonbon.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP update from 4.6 -> 4.7 Message-ID: <20021016105705.GB69781@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <1034757661.427.17.camel@knyghtmare.com> References: <20021016111927.K212-100000@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> <1034757661.427.17.camel@knyghtmare.com>
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:41:01AM +0100, Tom Carrick wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:27, BigBrother wrote:
> > a) How much space is required in order to make a buildworld
> > (downloading CVSUP, compiling, installing)
>
> A few hundred MB is a safe bet.
Actually, if you're going to do a complete buildworld, you'll need
more like 750Mb total, most of which is in /usr/src and /usr/obj:
happy-idiot-talk:~:% du -sh /usr/src /usr/obj
296M /usr/src
417M /usr/obj
plus a few more Mb for the cvsup stuff and so forth.
Cheers,
Matthew
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