On 3/30/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the packages i was talking about are ITK(see itk.org) and VTK(see
> vtk.org).ITK when compiled with examples alone takes more than 1.3
> gigs of space.
>
> On 3/30/07, Tijnema ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 3/30/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:16:30PM +0530, anirudh vij wrote:
> > > > hi,
> > > > i have a blfs system running on a 5 gig partition.around 2.5 gigs are
> > used up.
> > > > i am installing some packages that will take up about 1.7 gigs of
> > > > additional space.
> > > > so i wanted to add a new 12 gig partition to the system.this 12 gig
> > > > partition is currently mounted as /home under ubuntu.
> > > > how should i do this?
> > > > if it can be done ,can i put the /home of blfs on it?
> > > > no valuable data exists on the 12 gig partition currently.
> > > Apart from what has already been said, consider where space is
> > > currently being used. If it's in /var/log, rotate the logs
> > > regularly. If it's in /home, it's easy enough to move that to a
> > > different partition (and usually beneficial - you can then upgrade
> > > the system to yet another '/' partition without losing the data).
> > >
> > > What concerns me is packages that will take 1.7 GB - not
> > > impossible, but the biggest gnome package I have is gnumeric (50.5MB
> > > net space for 64-bit) and even the big kde packages are well under
> > > 100MB net - I keep /home (and /boot for x86 and x86_64) separately,
> > > and everything else fits in to 4GB partitions.
> > >
> > > ĸen
> >
> > Yeah, packages are not that big, unless you're talking about games (or
> > dedicated gameservers). I installed a hell lot of packages(Guess
> > around 500), including KDE/QT/X. Total disk space used: about 2GB
> > I also keep the sources + build which take 10GB of space. So if you
> > don't save your sources+build dirs, you don't really need more
> > space...
> >
> > Also you could strip out libraries and programs. See the LFS book for
> > more info about stripping.
> >
> > Tijnema
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