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Subject: Re: How much HDD space does FreeBSD need?
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Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm wondering how much HDD space does FreeBSD need in a normal
>installation. What I mean by the normal installation includes 'Full
>X-Development' packages with Gnome. Oh, It's 5.3-RELEASE.
>
>My HDD has 10G space for FreeBSD and I installed onto that space. The
>FreeBSD installation was of no problem. However, once I tried to
>upgrade Gnome 2.8 to 2.10, I've faced up a warning message at some
>point that I am running out of HDD space. (I just executed the
>recommend upgrade shell script from http://www.FreeBSD.org/gonme/)
>
>Is 10G HDD space is not good enough?
>
>Soo-Hyun
>  
>

Well, it *should* be plenty.  How did you partition the drive?

Could you show us the output of "df", the output of
"cat /etc/fstab", and give the text and context of the
warning message you refer to?

Kevin Kinsey