From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 29 00:17:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23890 for current-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 00:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA23883 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 00:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA14015; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:46:43 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970929164643.40234@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:46:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Studded Cc: "current@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Staying -current with FreeBSD References: <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com>; from Studded on Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 11:20:56PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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