How much HDD space does FreeBSD need?

[RW]

On Thursday 17 March 2005 16:16, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm wondering how much HDD space does FreeBSD need in a normal
> >installation. What I mean by the normal installation includes 'Full
> >X-Development' packages with Gnome. Oh, It's 5.3-RELEASE.
> >
> >My HDD has 10G space for FreeBSD and I installed onto that space. The
> >FreeBSD installation was of no problem. However, once I tried to
> >upgrade Gnome 2.8 to 2.10, I've faced up a warning message at some
> >point that I am running out of HDD space. (I just executed the
> >recommend upgrade shell script from http://www.FreeBSD.org/gonme/)
> >
> >Is 10G HDD space is not good enough?
> >
> >Soo-Hyun
>
> Well, it *should* be plenty.  How did you partition the drive?
>
> Could you show us the output of "df", the output of
> "cat /etc/fstab", and give the text and context of the
> warning message you refer to?

And take a look at

du -hs /usr/ports/distfiles/ /usr/ports/packages

You shouldn't really need any packages. And you can manage distfiles with 
portsclean (installed with portupgrade). 

Left unmanaged they can quickly mount up to several GB. A full set of 
up-to-date files for a desktop machine should take up about a 1 GB.