Disk Usage

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 22 April 2010 12:02, Jerry <freebsd.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
> 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?
>

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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