Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:20:39 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: fbsd2@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 80 Mb / enough for 7.x? OK to delete /stand/ and /modules/ ? Message-ID: <20080802.002039.58462077.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <372128.56919.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <372128.56919.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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fbsd2 <fbsd2@yahoo.com> writes:
: Greetings list,
:
: Given recent EOL announcements, I'm trying to upgrade an ancient machine from 5.5 to 7. It has 80 Mb total in the root partition, /home/, /var/, /usr/, and /tmp/ on other partitions, and NFS mounts /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports from a slightly newer/faster box. I've seen
:
: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html and
: http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-stable&m=121278826119286&w=2
:
: which seem to suggest that even with INSTALL_NODEBUG during buildkernel, 7 might not fit in an 80 Mb /. Must I partition a new disk to give more space to /, or can I find more space by deleting /stand/, /modules/, and possibly /rescue/ to shoehorn a custom 7.x kernel in the available space? TIA
Doesn't look like anybody has answered this question...
80MB is plenty, even for 7.x. However, you'll have to use nanobsd or
tinybsd to get that small. You'll likely been unable to do a 'make
installworld' to get this size. You'll have to create an image and
push it over to this machine somehow.
In the 3.x time frame, I had FreeBSD booting with the standard scripts
in 13MB without compression. 4.x, 5.x and 6.x bloated these binaries
to about 18MB (a few more were added). I haven't built a system based
on 7.x with this system due to a change in employment, but expect that
it wouldn't be much larger than 20MB for these same files. Some
careful honing could reduce that a little, but maybe not a lot.
Typical embedded systems that I shipped were on the order of 24MB
without X11 and 32-60MB for those with an X11 server.
What's this box used for?
Warner
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