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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:56:32 -0800
From:      "Hervey Wilson" <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   How much space for /usr ?
Message-ID:  <006e01c0b7da$58aed420$2e7c1aac@redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

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Like an earlier poster, I am a FreeBSD newbie in the process of migrating my
home server away from Linux. It's been an interesting experience, sometimes
frustrating, but I think I'm gradually figuring it out :) Certainly, I'm
*way* happier with the "state" of the server in that it seems to perform
better and feels much cleaner (at least in terms of the amount of stuff
installed).

Before I get too locked in to my current installation, I'd like to know how
much space people typically allocate for the /usr partition. I gave it 2Gb
but, after using Cvsup to sync ports-all and sys-all, building a new kernel
plus XFree86-4 and KDE2, I noticed that I was using nearly 1Gb of the
partition. I did "make clean" in /usr/ports but I'm still looking at 800Mb.
Around 180Mb of this is for .tgz files in /usr/ports/distfiles that could,
at a pinch, be deleted. However, given that I have a 30Gb disk, with most
allocated to /home, should I just do a re-install and allocate more space to
/usr ?

Thanks in advance,
Hervey.


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