sorry for the last empty mail.i pressed the send button inadvertently. right now /usr is 1.7 gigs./home is 0.3 gigs,and other misc total to around 0.7 gig. i was surprised to see the size of the /proc partition.this was around 850mb.Is this what we expect?
On 3/30/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > > > > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > > > > -- > > > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > > > > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > > > > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > > -- > > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > > > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > > > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
