On Sep 3, 2018 4:33 PM, Ken M <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 03:59:07AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > Hi Ken, > > > > How exactly to distribute space among partitions really depends on what > > you want to use the machine for. The disk you are showing above can be > > called terribly small nowadays (though i admit that i used disks in > > production with OpenBSD 2.7 17 years ago that were more than 1000 > > times smaller), so small that you are likely to run out of space > > sooner or later even if you don't let waste data lying around. > > > > Yes, you always want /usr/local/, except maybe on a pure firewall router > > where you are not planning to install any ports whatsoever except rsync. > > > > I see you do not have /usr/src/, /usr/obj/, /usr/xenocara/, > > and /usr/xobj/, so you are obviously not planning to work on patches > > to the base system or to X11. Nothing is wrong with that. If you ever > > start doing such work on that machine, you will have to bite off the > > required partitions from home, though. It would have been smarter if > > you had left at least 10G at the end of the disk unallocated; if you > > ever needed some partition like that, you could create it without a fuss; > > if /home/ ever got full, you could move some stuff there. > > > > I see you do have /usr/ports/, so obviously, you are planning to do > > some work on ports. I only work on ports *occasionally*, i'm not a > > real porter, yet i currently have the following amounts of space *in > > use* for work on ports: > > > > - /usr/local/ -- 9 GB (separate partition) > > - /usr/ports/pobj/ -- 18 GB (separate partition) > > - /usr/ports/distfiles/ -- 9 GB (partition /usr/ports/) > > - /usr/ports/packages/ -- 8 GB > > - /usr/ports/ -- 650 MB (rest of the partition) > > > > In addition to that, i have about 115 checkouts of source trees > > of various software that i occasionally work on or look at on > > another partition, which takes up another 21 GB (but that's more > > for base that for ports work). > > > > Yours, > > Ingo > > Other than using OpenBSD as general secure laptop env and doing some > development > I have planned to work on some ports, have done a little bit to try to help > with > lmms for example. > > At the time I installed this system (the 128 GB SSD is what came with it) I > probably didn't know enough about wxallowed to properly make decisions. > > Probably the smartest thing to do is maybe reinstall or at least redo the > partitions a good bit. I think what I need to do is make /usr smaller make > /usr/local a good 15gb partition and the rest leave for /usr/ports. I think I > need to backup what I got and then drop those partitions/disklabels and remake > them. That is probably the cleanest, I am guessing it will be best to do that > from single user mode. > > Ken > This obviously isn't the officially recommended way to do it, but it works here.
I put everything in my $HOME and use symlinks to trick the build system into thinking it's in /usr/ports, etc. Thus, no need to fool with partitions. Edgar
