From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jan 25 00:22:41 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 57ABFA4563A for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:22:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: from quine.pinyon.org (quine.pinyon.org [65.101.5.249]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3962CF36 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:22:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix, from userid 122) id 6E6A616026A; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:15:29 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on quine.pinyon.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from feyerabend.n1.pinyon.org (acipenser.esturion.net [65.101.5.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by quine.pinyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 424B916015F for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:15:27 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: [installworld] Do We need /usr/obj To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <56A532AC.3050803@tundraware.com> From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-ID: <56A5691E.4090005@pinyon.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:15:26 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:22:41 -0000 On 01/24/16 16:49, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, 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). >> I'm bringing up 2 VPS stable/10 systems soon, and my plan is to update via NFS over OpenVPN. I already update multiple boxen with different kernel configs this way, though not over OpenVPN. So I might run into problems, but I should be able to make it happen. It would be sooooo much easier to maintain these if they were debian, but I'm committed. (I.e., more propaganda in favor of packaging the base system) Russell > Yes, you can delete /usr/bin after installworld. The problem is that you > will need approximately the same space if and when you rebuild the system. > So if you are rebuilding periodically (such as nightly), you cannot gain > any > space this way. > > If you have space in /tmp or /var you could link /usr/bin to some of that > space. > > You could also mount removable storage at /usr/bin for the build, but this > is not going to work with an automated chron job or without physical access > to the machine to attach the moveable storage. > > >