How much disk space required for make release?

[Devin Teske]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Miller, Vincent (Rick)
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:39 AM
> To: FreeBSD
> Subject: How much disk space required for make release?
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am attempting to 'make release' 8.2-RELEASE.  After running for a few hours,
it
> died citing lack of disk space. The filesystem has approximately 80GB
available.
> How much disk space is required when making a release?

According to my notes...

You will need approximately 600MB of storage space available on the filesystem
that `/usr/src' resides on.

Meanwhile, you'll need an additional 3GB (approximately) of storage space
available on the filesystem that `/usr/release' resides on.

And further still, you'll need an additional 600MB of storage space for the
`/usr/obj' directory.

So if all three directories (`/usr/src', `/usr/obj', and `/usr/release') live on
the same filesystem, you'll need approximately 4.2GB of free space to build a
FreeBSD release (including the source).

Please note however, that this estimate is low because I never compile a release
with the default options.

I usually use the following:

        make release CHROOTDIR=/usr/release EXTSRCDIR=/usr/src KERNELS_BASE= \
                NODOC=YES NO_FLOPPIES=YES NOCDROM=YES NOPORTS=YES

The above options _significantly_ reduce the size of disk space required to
build the release.
-- 
Devin


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