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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> writes:

> I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD-8.0/amd64. Previously, I had
> FreeBSD-7.3/i386  installed. It appears the the size of "/" has
> increased dramatically.
>
> $ df -H
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    1.0G    527M    428M    55%    /
> devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad0s1d    520M     18k    478M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1e    236G    6.0G    212G     3%    /usr
> /dev/ad1s1d    238G    720M    218G     0%    /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?

New modules, mostly.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/