Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:01:58 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended size of root partition Message-ID: <d7195cff0707010801l567a5469k7634d6e4fadf2f56@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0706301618l6821d2c3n4ac0510fde66f834@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c0706301618l6821d2c3n4ac0510fde66f834@mail.gmail.com>
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On 30/06/07, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> 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. -- --
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