From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 14:56:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.dynamic-cast.com (r175-5-dsl.sea.lightrealm.net [216.122.5.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8925537B71B for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:56:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Received: from p2ptoolkit (tide74.microsoft.com [131.107.3.74]) by matrix.dynamic-cast.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2SMuhf77153 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:56:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Message-ID: <006e01c0b7da$58aed420$2e7c1aac@redmond.corp.microsoft.com> From: "Hervey Wilson" To: Subject: How much space for /usr ? Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:56:32 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Like an earlier poster, I am a FreeBSD newbie in the process of migrating my home server away from Linux. It's been an interesting experience, sometimes frustrating, but I think I'm gradually figuring it out :) Certainly, I'm *way* happier with the "state" of the server in that it seems to perform better and feels much cleaner (at least in terms of the amount of stuff installed). Before I get too locked in to my current installation, I'd like to know how much space people typically allocate for the /usr partition. I gave it 2Gb but, after using Cvsup to sync ports-all and sys-all, building a new kernel plus XFree86-4 and KDE2, I noticed that I was using nearly 1Gb of the partition. I did "make clean" in /usr/ports but I'm still looking at 800Mb. Around 180Mb of this is for .tgz files in /usr/ports/distfiles that could, at a pinch, be deleted. However, given that I have a 30Gb disk, with most allocated to /home, should I just do a re-install and allocate more space to /usr ? Thanks in advance, Hervey. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message