From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 1 15:02:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B03616A421 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C7F13C465 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so48516nfb for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:01:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pXqQbAJXmoqOXaqk0GnHvBfynGFkTdwnPPtn9PVsJ62fCF+pmvZI25TWaru3J7gBylJ3bjMm/VDEk9o8sKEZ5vT+99xhghOeZ9Q1Ru3hh3FmmbQwK/UtmfnOrPLkaYmo5QfyNKkhncdm979byOOx2cY9ePBiHLJGcuLAUuIqiIs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dQdMgPl8+H2pC2vA1OF5OeJrtcL/hH5qUFLXa4QOopo5UR1ERI2ck3RddnojNH7P0XO/tAAyr0LRrCIPGnaFf969V1reI/uLLCVftRs738rtLnvicg45gj1sbF7U/tAHYxVv4nzK39CD1892n9KONA8f+G3FBg1iXT/Y2tFQwmA= Received: by 10.82.116.15 with SMTP id o15mr10851422buc.1183302118889; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.6 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 08:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:01:58 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Ben Kaduk" In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0706301618l6821d2c3n4ac0510fde66f834@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47d0403c0706301618l6821d2c3n4ac0510fde66f834@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended size of root partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:02:00 -0000 On 30/06/07, Ben Kaduk wrote: > Does anyone here know how much data a default FreeBSD install puts > onto the root partition? We've got a sentence in the installation > chapter of the handbook that claims that a regular FreeBSD install > will put about 40 MB of data on the root partition. > > I find it likely that this is no longer true on a modern system, since > my (debug) kernel is 88 MB, but I don't have a box handy on which I > can do a quick install. A quick decompression of the base/base.[ab]? , kernels/generic.a? , manpages/manpages.a? followed by rm -rf usr/ var/ tmp/ leaves 36M in the root directory. 6.2-RELEASE. -- --