Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:41:19 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended size of root partition Message-ID: <20070701204053.H77247@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0707010938i2af1c0a1gc26da2652e4648a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c0706301618l6821d2c3n4ac0510fde66f834@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0707010801l567a5469k7634d6e4fadf2f56@mail.gmail.com> <47d0403c0707010938i2af1c0a1gc26da2652e4648a8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Ben Kaduk wrote: BK> On 7/1/07, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: BK> > On 30/06/07, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> wrote: BK> > > Does anyone here know how much data a default FreeBSD install puts BK> > > onto the root partition? We've got a sentence in the installation BK> > > chapter of the handbook that claims that a regular FreeBSD install BK> > > will put about 40 MB of data on the root partition. BK> > > BK> > > I find it likely that this is no longer true on a modern system, since BK> > > my (debug) kernel is 88 MB, but I don't have a box handy on which I BK> > > can do a quick install. BK> > BK> > A quick decompression of the base/base.[ab]? , kernels/generic.a? , BK> > manpages/manpages.a? followed by rm -rf usr/ var/ tmp/ leaves 36M BK> > in the root directory. BK> > 6.2-RELEASE. BK> Thanks! What command did you use to do the decompression (and what BK> was the source from which to decompress)? I figured that doing an BK> extraction would be the best way (since it directly tests the object BK> in question), but I couldn't come up with something quick. Look at install.sh scripts in the distribution directories Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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