Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:38:07 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended size of root partition Message-ID: <47d0403c0707010938i2af1c0a1gc26da2652e4648a8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0707010801l567a5469k7634d6e4fadf2f56@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c0706301618l6821d2c3n4ac0510fde66f834@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0707010801l567a5469k7634d6e4fadf2f56@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/1/07, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > -- > 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
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