Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:46:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Staying -current with FreeBSD Message-ID: <19970929164643.40234@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com>; from Studded on Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 11:20:56PM -0700 References: <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 11:20:56PM -0700, Studded wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:21:09 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, I've just discovered my mistake: I had the ports tree
>> inside /usr/src, so it's been counted twice. Take 160 MB off that
>> figure...
>
> Ok, so how about a semi-definitive answer to that age-old
> question. I want to know how much hard disk space I should allocate
> for a fairly complete freebsd system. I'm talking binaries, CVS source
> tree, and room to make the world. I'll add swap space and room for my
> files as needed. Assume a fairly luxurious system with some games,
> ports, etc. Disk space is fairly cheap right now, but it's always good
> to plan ahead. Any takers? :)
Well, I've removed my duplicate ports tree and run du through them
again. Here are the revised values:
Table 16-1. Approximate source tree sizes
+-------------------------+-----------+
|Component | Size (MB) |
+-------------------------+-----------+
|Repository src/sys | 53 |
|Repository src | 330 |
|Repository ports | 36 |
|Source tree /usr/src/sys | 65 |
|Source tree /usr/src | 225 |
|Source tree /usr/ports | 200 |
|Object tree src | 160 |
+-------------------------+-----------+
Compared to the previous, /usr/src has gone down from 372 to 225 (as a
result of the ports being moved out), and ports have gone up from 160
to 200. In fact, I measured 224 MB for ports, but as I observe, you
could fill up several gigabytes of disk with ports if you wanted to.
200 MB is comfortable if you do a make clean from time to time.
Greg
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