Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:54:12 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disk Space Requirements Message-ID: <17850.56052.957588.491300@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20070127042742.GA61015@dan.emsphone.com> References: <45BAAD80.4080907@chapman.edu> <20070127042742.GA61015@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson writes: > > I've got four gigs of disk allocated to the box. Is this enough > > space to rebuild the OS from source within? > > You need less than 500MB of space for /usr/obj. I recently > upgraded a system with almost-full drives by mounting a 1GB flash > drive on /usr/obj, and it didn't get over half full. If you > don't already have a checked-out /usr/src tree, that'll require > another 500MB. huff@>> du -s -k /usr/src 466292 /usr/src huff@jerusalem>> du -s -k /usr/obj 865338 /usr/obj This is for -CURRENT. Robert Huff
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