From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 1 16:52:58 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 AE9F716A41F for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:52:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2D913C483 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:52:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l61GfKrr080424; Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:41:20 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:41:19 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Ben Kaduk In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0707010938i2af1c0a1gc26da2652e4648a8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070701204053.H77247@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <47d0403c0706301618l6821d2c3n4ac0510fde66f834@mail.gmail.com> <47d0403c0707010938i2af1c0a1gc26da2652e4648a8@mail.gmail.com> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:41:20 +0400 (MSD) 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 16:52:58 -0000 On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Ben Kaduk wrote: BK> On 7/1/07, illoai@gmail.com wrote: BK> > On 30/06/07, Ben Kaduk wrote: BK> > > Does anyone here know how much data a default FreeBSD install puts BK> > > onto the root partition? We've got a sentence in the installation BK> > > chapter of the handbook that claims that a regular FreeBSD install BK> > > will put about 40 MB of data on the root partition. BK> > > BK> > > I find it likely that this is no longer true on a modern system, since BK> > > my (debug) kernel is 88 MB, but I don't have a box handy on which I BK> > > can do a quick install. BK> > BK> > A quick decompression of the base/base.[ab]? , kernels/generic.a? , BK> > manpages/manpages.a? followed by rm -rf usr/ var/ tmp/ leaves 36M BK> > in the root directory. BK> > 6.2-RELEASE. BK> Thanks! What command did you use to do the decompression (and what BK> was the source from which to decompress)? I figured that doing an BK> extraction would be the best way (since it directly tests the object BK> in question), but I couldn't come up with something quick. Look at install.sh scripts in the distribution directories Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------