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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:15:07 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        peter@wemm.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src UPDATING 
Message-ID:  <20021026.231507.27949818.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021027042000.AA09B2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <200210262250.g9QMoWBg032315@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021027042000.AA09B2A88D@canning.wemm.org>

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In message: <20021027042000.AA09B2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
            Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > imp         2002/10/26 15:50:32 PDT
: > 
: >   Modified files:
: >     .                    UPDATING 
: >   Log:
: >   Note: 5.0 requires more space.  If you don't have 30MB free on /, then
: >   you are going to get hurt badly if you try to do an update from
: >   sources.  Make a note of this.  While 'experts' could install it in
: >   less space, I think 30MB is a good number.
: 
: Heh, I rember installing with 20M for / and thinking that 32M *total* for
: / was excessive.  My, how our libc.a has grown into a spaghetti monster.
: And having 10,000 modules doesn't help either. 

There are now more programs in /bin and /sbin.  There are a zillion
modules.  Also, /tmp is now used for install programs, which increase
the requirement.  It looks like binaries are bloaded another 10k each
over their 4.x days, and we have a few new ones (eg, setfacl).  Also,
the 5.0 sh is 714k while the 4.x one is 455k.  So we're indeed
entering the bloat-o-matic stage.

One can likely do it with 20M, but I picked 30M as a safe figure to
give to people that might not be extreme experts on recoving these
things.

Warner

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