On 23/11/05, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All I was really doing was warning people about the required resources to > build a released kernel 'sort of' from scratch, using 'sort of' default > settings. Downloading 38MB of compressed source is a lot but acceptable, but > when it generates over 2GB ( that's well over 50 times ) of output, then I'm > taken aback. > > Steve. >
Though, to be fair, you need to compare the size of the uncompressed sources to the amount of space needed. Source code can compress reasonably well with bzip2. So: 1. Uncompress kernel. Do a df on the partition where the sources are. 2. Compile kernel. Do another df. 3. Compare the result. 4. Profit! (Well, intellectual profit - you will have learned something) You might also like to automatically do a df every 10s or so during the build to track the disk usage. Build us a graph! And of course, make sure nothing else is writing stuff to that partition at the same time. Cheers, Carl.
