recommended size of root partition

[Ben Kaduk]

On 7/1/07, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Ben Kaduk wrote:
>
> BK> On 7/1/07, illoai at gmail.com <illoai at gmail.com> wrote:
> BK> > On 30/06/07, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot at gmail.com> wrote:
> BK> > > Does anyone here know how much data a default FreeBSD install puts
> BK> > > onto the root partition?  We've got a sentence in the installation
> BK> > > chapter of the handbook that claims that a regular FreeBSD install
> BK> > > will put about 40 MB of data on the root partition.
> BK> > >
> BK> > > I find it likely that this is no longer true on a modern system, since
> BK> > > my (debug) kernel is 88 MB, but I don't have a box handy on which I
> BK> > > can do a quick install.
> BK> >
> BK> > A quick decompression of the base/base.[ab]? , kernels/generic.a? ,
> BK> > manpages/manpages.a? followed by rm -rf usr/ var/ tmp/ leaves 36M
> BK> > in the root directory.
> BK> > 6.2-RELEASE.
>
> BK> Thanks!  What command did you use to do the decompression (and what
> BK> was the source from which to decompress)?  I figured that doing an
> BK> extraction would be the best way (since it directly tests the object
> BK> in question), but I couldn't come up with something quick.
>
> Look at install.sh scripts in the distribution directories
>

I am still a bit confused.  When you say ``distribution directories,''
I presume you mean the directory hierarchy of a distribution medium,
such as an ISO image (or presumably the result of ``make
distribution'').  I certainly don't see any global install.sh in
/usr/src .  I made the original query because I wasn't equipped to do
a make distribution, and I didn't have any install CD's handy.

-Ben Kaduk


>
> Sincerely,
> D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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