Space required for build

[Yuri Pankov]

Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> Hello!
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>> I have been running short of space when building from source lately.
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>> There is 12 GB available in /usr for src and obj , but this doesn't seem
>> enough. Is this too little, or is there anything else wrong with my system?
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>> Regards,
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>> Per Gunnarsson
> 
> 
> You can use a separate partition or directory, or even a different hard disk with UFS (or ZFS?) partition.
> 
> You would need to set environment variable MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX or use null mount.

And to answer the original question, that's what I have after a build of 
HEAD:

$ du -sh /usr/{obj,src}
5.5G    /usr/obj
1.3G    /usr/src