Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:23:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.buffalostate.edu> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Jim Power <jim-power@geocities.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908230345.12873A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970908143521.15301A-100000@www.buffalostate.edu>
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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Dave Hummel wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Jim Power wrote: > > > > > > > 5.How many disk space is recommended for running a FULL version > > > > FreeBSD and many application? > > > > > > And all the source code, so you can rebuilt the system and the kernel > > > at will? And the ports collection, so you can easily get and install > > > new programs? X Window System, Star Office, Emacs? Maybe 1.5 Gb. > > > > > > Annelise > > > > I have a machine on which I try > > do regular "make world"s > > and on which I have tried to build all the ports from scratch. > > > > I ran out of disk space.. > > I have 3.5 GB on it.. > > that's a LOT of software.. I only got about half way through the ports > > > > julian > > > This is probably more than what the average user would need to do. I'm > quite happy with 3 Gigs for my single user system. > > I'm running 2.2-STABLE so I of course have full source, and I've installed > all the basic ports. I'm using about 28% of total capacity on /usr so I > have a comfortable buffer. I think Annelise's estimate is pretty close, > but I don't feel comfortable without plenty of extra space to grow into. > Of course, you could start off with about 1.5 and add more later. > Actually my FreeBSD slice is about 1.8 Gb, and I'm running out of space too. I discovered my /usr/ports was 144 megs instead of 40+ because of all the tarballs in /usr/ports/distfiles, "make.out" files, and undeleted work directories. I deleted some port branches (e.g., japanese) that I'm unable to use, but they'll be back the next time I cvsup the ports. My home directory had some 250 megs; I found some of the big useless files with ls -l | sort -k 5, which seems to work most of the time. "You can never be too thin, to rich, or have too much disk space," someone once said. On the other hand hard disk prices have pretty consistently declined over time, so maybe it's reasonable to start with 2 Gb and get a 4 Gb drive later....but I do dread trying to get the stuff from the old drive to the new drive. I have a 220 meg partition on another drive where I have a "fresh" install of 2.2-R. I discovered (with only 24 megs swap) that I can't have both the ports collection and X Windows (and that's with no source at all). Annelise
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