Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:22:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: John <j.telford@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much space Message-ID: <20011004152239.A41705@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <000601c14c86$371ab3b0$0a00000a@johnny2k> References: <009a01c14bfc$b274ded0$9500a8c0@mad> <3BBB4454.E2C30186@acuson.com> <000601c14c86$371ab3b0$0a00000a@johnny2k>
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John <j.telford@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > How much if you want to keep up to date via cvsup ? Hello John, tracking -CURRENT here, and the disk space I am using for keeping the sources to everything and the ports are shown below: hades!root:[/usr/src]# du -sk . 361911 . # after removing all the `work' directories from ports. hades!root:[/usr/ports]# du -sk . 116388 . The real requirements should be somewhat smaller, if you are using CVSup to update the sources (and not CVS, like I do). Those CVS/ directories in each subdirectory of my tree take up some space, which you won't need when updating with CVSup. You should also have about 300 Mb of space in /usr/obj to build the world before installing it. You can nuke the entire /usr/obj when you finish your `installworld' though, and free the space. All this sums up to 350 + 300 + 110 Mb of space. That means you will need close to 800 Mb for the sources of everything, not including the uncompressed source and build directories of any ports you install. If you do not clean your /usr/ports tree very often, you'll need a bit more, since there are ports that require as little as 1 Mb of space to uncompress and build, but there are also ports that need more than a few dozens of Mb (KDE, Gnome, Emacs and TeX come to mind). To have the sources, and their compiled versions, plus some space to store your own personal data and a little breathing space, an installation would probably take close to 2 Gb, IMHO. I hope this helps a bit, -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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