From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jan 24 20:57:50 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287F37876 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from oceanview.tundraware.com (oceanview.tundraware.com [45.55.60.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "oceanview.tundraware.com", Issuer "oceanview.tundraware.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C45DC1B07 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:57:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by oceanview.tundraware.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id u0OKvALm047233 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:57:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Subject: Re: [installworld] Do We need /usr/obj To: Terje Elde References: <56A532AC.3050803@tundraware.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List From: Tim Daneliuk Message-ID: <56A53AA1.1010405@tundraware.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:57:05 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (oceanview.tundraware.com [45.55.60.57]); Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:57:10 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: u0OKvALm047233 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:57:50 -0000 On 01/24/2016 02:42 PM, Terje Elde wrote: > > >> On 24 Jan 2016, at 21:23, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> >> One of the servers I maintain has a very small footprint (it's a VPS). >> It is set up to do a full buildworld/buildkernel every night. That way, >> when its time to upgrade for, say, security reasons, there is no build delay >> (which takes nearly 5 hours on this virtual machine). > > Why build on the machine then? Why not just build on and install from another? Because this machine is many networks away and installation over the wire would take quite a while, I think. > >> The problem is that the machine has really limited disk space for day-to-day >> use. So here's the question: does installworld/kernel need what is in >> /usr/obj, or can that be deleted once the build is complete? This would free >> up considerable space on that machine. > > Well, that's where your built stuff goes, so it's where you'd install files from if you upgrade. So you DO need /usr/obj for the installs then? > > Also, it wouldn't really help you to delete it. With your current setup, you'd need the space again the next night, wouldn't you? The idea would be to have the rebuild scripts clean out /usr/obj when they are done ... if it were no longer needed. > > Terje > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/