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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:06:14 -0400
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk Usage
Message-ID:  <k2yd7195cff1004230906zdeeb085akdab5f6535d6c6c22@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100422120223.2d1d50f4@scorpio.seibercom.net>
References:  <20100422120223.2d1d50f4@scorpio.seibercom.net>

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On 22 April 2010 12:02, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote:
> I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD-8.0/amd64. Previously, I had
> FreeBSD-7.3/i386 =A0installed. It appears the the size of "/" has
> increased dramatically.
>
> $ df -H
> Filesystem =A0 =A0 Size =A0 =A0Used =A0 Avail Capacity =A0Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a =A0 =A01.0G =A0 =A0527M =A0 =A0428M =A0 =A055% =A0 =A0/
> devfs =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A01.0k =A0 =A01.0k =A0 =A0 =A00B =A0 100% =A0 =A0/=
dev
> /dev/ad0s1d =A0 =A0520M =A0 =A0 18k =A0 =A0478M =A0 =A0 0% =A0 =A0/tmp
> /dev/ad0s1e =A0 =A0236G =A0 =A06.0G =A0 =A0212G =A0 =A0 3% =A0 =A0/usr
> /dev/ad1s1d =A0 =A0238G =A0 =A0720M =A0 =A0218G =A0 =A0 0% =A0 =A0/var
>
> When I attempted to build World and a new kernel after first installing
> 8.0, I received an error that "/" was at 106% and the process stopped. I
> reinstalled 8.0 and increased the size to 1.0G and now everything
> appears to be working correctly.
>
> In my old installation, the root directory only used a minuscule amount
> of space. Why has it increased so dramatically in 8.0/amd64?
>

64bit executables are going to be larger,
sometimes as much as 2x, but do you
now have a bunch of (large)
/boot/kernel/*.symbols
files now?

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