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by **johnp..** » Mon, 01 May 2000 04:00:00

One thing I can't find in documentation I've searched, is what are disk
space requirements for freebsd? I'm asking because I installed 3.4 on a
850M disk, and attempting to install almost any package results in "file
system full". df gives:

Filseystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0s1a 49583 20331 24786 46% /
/dev/wd01f 588863 533496 8258 98% /usr
/dev/wd01e 19815 2298 15932 13% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc

The above was after doing 'make clean' and 'make distclean' on /usr/ports.
This only reduced ports from about 8888K, and capacity remains unchanged
(why does this process take so much more time than installing, anyway? It
took about 5-6 hours each to run!). By deleting some space there I was
able to install lynx, but coudn't even install emacs. Is this disk just
too small for practical use, or is there something else I can remove?
I'll have a larger disk available, but not for a few months probably.
I'd like to set up a basic system with Xwindows, Netscape, etc., nothing
extreme.

http://www.nwserv.com/~johnpipe/
"I do not know that I know the self fully,
neither do I know that I know him not"
...from the Upanishads

by **Bill Mora** » Tue, 02 May 2000 04:00:00

Are the any files in /usr/ports/distfiles? If so, you can clean them up
and possibly save a lot of space. If you're not compiling any new
kernels or staying -CURRENT or -STABLE with cvsup, you can delete
everything in /usr/src
I have FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE installed on an 840M HDD on my laptop, with
X, Netscape and some others (don't remember what else and it's not
around right now) and the disk is only half full. You have something
somewhere that you don't need.

-Bill

> One thing I can't find in documentation I've searched, is what are disk
> space requirements for freebsd? I'm asking because I installed 3.4 on a
> 850M disk, and attempting to install almost any package results in "file
> system full". df gives:

> Filseystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/wd0s1a 49583 20331 24786 46% /
> /dev/wd01f 588863 533496 8258 98% /usr
> /dev/wd01e 19815 2298 15932 13% /var
> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc

> The above was after doing 'make clean' and 'make distclean' on /usr/ports.
> This only reduced ports from about 8888K, and capacity remains unchanged
> (why does this process take so much more time than installing, anyway? It
> took about 5-6 hours each to run!). By deleting some space there I was
> able to install lynx, but coudn't even install emacs. Is this disk just
> too small for practical use, or is there something else I can remove?
> I'll have a larger disk available, but not for a few months probably.
> I'd like to set up a basic system with Xwindows, Netscape, etc., nothing
> extreme.

> http://www.nwserv.com/~johnpipe/
> "I do not know that I know the self fully,
> neither do I know that I know him not"
> ...from the Upanishads

--
Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what?

by **Chris Dahle** » Tue, 02 May 2000 04:00:00

This is just a guess, but did you by chance install the full X sources
as well as the binaries? That will take up gobs of space. I made the
mistake of doing that once and it really clobbered my drive. I think if
you installed the X sources, they'll be under /usr/X11R6/src or
something like that; in any case, it's not in /usr/src.

Chris

by **Herme** » Wed, 03 May 2000 04:00:00

If you did a make world at least once, see you you need to delete /usr/obj/...

Having GNOME or KDE will also eat up a lot of disk space. Staying away from those bloated desktop environments and using a good wm like icewm 1.03 saves a lot of disk space and memory too.

> One thing I can't find in documentation I've searched, is what are disk
> space requirements for freebsd? I'm asking because I installed 3.4 on a
> 850M disk, and attempting to install almost any package results in "file
> system full". df gives:

> Filseystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/wd0s1a 49583 20331 24786 46% /
> /dev/wd01f 588863 533496 8258 98% /usr
> /dev/wd01e 19815 2298 15932 13% /var
> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc

> The above was after doing 'make clean' and 'make distclean' on /usr/ports.
> This only reduced ports from about 8888K, and capacity remains unchanged
> (why does this process take so much more time than installing, anyway? It
> took about 5-6 hours each to run!). By deleting some space there I was
> able to install lynx, but coudn't even install emacs. Is this disk just
> too small for practical use, or is there something else I can remove?
> I'll have a larger disk available, but not for a few months probably.
> I'd like to set up a basic system with Xwindows, Netscape, etc., nothing
> extreme.

> http://www.nwserv.com/~johnpipe/
> "I do not know that I know the self fully,
> neither do I know that I know him not"
> ...from the Upanishads

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practical minimum disk size?

practical minimum disk size?

practical minimum disk size?

practical minimum disk size?

practical minimum disk size?