recommended size of root partition

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Ben Kaduk wrote:

BK> On 7/1/07, illoai at gmail.com <illoai at gmail.com> wrote:
BK> > On 30/06/07, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot at 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]
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