On August 18, 2015 4:33:11 AM EDT, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > >is it good practice to have /usr/pgk on its own partition? Would it >make easier when upgrading a whole system? > >Or is it better to have the whole of /usr on its own? > >If anybody has got a full desktop installation working, how much does >/usr/pkg take as a percentage of the whole system? > >Thanks
As you might expect this depends greatly on how many packages you install and what you consider a "full desktop". All of KDE, or just xmonad and a few tools? I believe you can get a package+dependencies size out of pkg_info (or just look directly at the "+SIZE_ALL" file), so if you've got a good set of packages in mind that you want to use, you can probably estimate it based on that. I'd guess at least 20GB. Unfortunately the meta-pkgs/kde4 package doesn't actually exist on ftp.netbsd.org (why? No idea), so it's not so easy :( I wouldn't worry too much about having /usr/pkg be a separate filesystem. You can always "rm -rf" it (and /var/db/pkg) if you want to clear it out, and unless you're planning on doing that more than weekly it doesn't take all that long. Eric
