Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:18:25 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> Cc: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [installworld] Do We need /usr/obj Message-ID: <20160125091825.b5888ec3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1601241738500.51005@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> References: <56A532AC.3050803@tundraware.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1601241738500.51005@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:49:24 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > > One of the servers I maintain has a very small footprint (it's a VPS). > > It is set up to do a full buildworld/buildkernel every night. That way, > > when its time to upgrade for, say, security reasons, there is no build delay > > (which takes nearly 5 hours on this virtual machine). > > > > Yes, you can delete /usr/bin after installworld. Deleting /usr/bin is not a good idea; deleting /usr/obj is a better one. :-) Allow me an addition: It's possible that you'll need /usr/obj for the mergemaster steps as well (I'm not fully sure which files will be sourced from /usr/src and which from /usr/obj). So it's probably a good advice to have a look at /usr/src/Makefile's comment header in order to check the correct order of operations which might involve using /usr/obj _after_ "make installworld". > If you have space in /tmp or /var you could link /usr/bin to some of that > space. If you have sufficient RAM for that instance, it's probably possible to put /usr/obj in memory as "scratch space". In this case, always check your swap configuration! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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