Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:33:51 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much HDD space does FreeBSD need? Message-ID: <200503171633.51664.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <4239AD77.9080201@daleco.biz> References: <34b425c505031705587bfc378c@mail.gmail.com> <4239AD77.9080201@daleco.biz>
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On Thursday 17 March 2005 16:16, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > 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? And take a look at du -hs /usr/ports/distfiles/ /usr/ports/packages You shouldn't really need any packages. And you can manage distfiles with portsclean (installed with portupgrade). Left unmanaged they can quickly mount up to several GB. A full set of up-to-date files for a desktop machine should take up about a 1 GB.
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