From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 1 16:38:08 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 358E616A468 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5F513C45B for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:38:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so597986nzf for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:38:07 -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=j4HHAkFU7588jasreM/ejMV5VTUttbKDtTLydg8UNISItLruD2oHFe7U/jqRUEZSPl5r9cNsJ2KKx6XmXh+5urwKbYkaib3QiMx/JbIaOWmq1LkJx86W1SSUBOkdFgBwoNkgNjiM0zcFAf0R1+fkvhLgkTN4FxoiPn3J+Wy35so= 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=nMNnXKOgC1Dhu+89MRzr5hBrOhijr7/RM1lxK+PvLtSJFHMQEYg0LqKIASLGLKVQXyxzPG8ErSgOSaQoMSMjesXwRSutAKOjbg3RWUZn0CIZ2oKKTtZvlJtElAOMuecCeePE8yL/HpqTespbMOx2AWLNbL6yNRqxSOl/xbMYU9w= Received: by 10.142.109.16 with SMTP id h16mr296427wfc.1183307887068; Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.1.8 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 09:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47d0403c0707010938i2af1c0a1gc26da2652e4648a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:38:07 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" To: "illoai@gmail.com" In-Reply-To: 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 16:38:08 -0000 On 7/1/07, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > 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. > > -- > -- > Thanks! What command did you use to do the decompression (and what was the source from which to decompress)? I figured that doing an extraction would be the best way (since it directly tests the object in question), but I couldn't come up with something quick. -Ben Kaduk