From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 04:56:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B61816A401 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:56:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC7113C46C for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:56:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.28]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 26 Jan 2007 23:56:07 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.13,245,1167627600"; d="scan'208"; a="398143656:sNHT23847880" Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id IEE74026; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:56:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from 209-6-203-219.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.203.219]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 26 Jan 2007 23:56:04 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17850.56052.957588.491300@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:54:12 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <20070127042742.GA61015@dan.emsphone.com> References: <45BAAD80.4080907@chapman.edu> <20070127042742.GA61015@dan.emsphone.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090206.45BADB64.0086,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=207.172.4.11, so=2006-05-09 23:27:51, dmn=5.2.125/2006-10-10 Subject: Re: Disk Space Requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:56:11 -0000 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