Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:06:38PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> Drive organization is really a personal preference item. >> > Agreed, but I commented because I feel people often read the > minimalist suggestions in the book, and then make things harder for > themselves in the future. > >> There is a big difference between build space and install space. > > Sometimes. Perhaps I need to mention that I normally use > CFLAGS=-O2 and the same for CXXFLAGS : not everything respects that, > and most sane packages default to -O2, but it does get rid of a lot > of debug info. That on its own might explain why I can get by with > a lot less than 10GB for '/'. > >> I >> generally build in /tmp which is on a separate partition. I also put a >> lot of stuff in /opt and leave it there: >> >> 1.2G /opt/qt-4.7.0 >> 441M /opt/qt-4.8.2 >> 1.4G /opt/qtbin > > Is qtbin part of the qt-4.8.2 install, or did your 4.8.2 get smaller > than qt-4.7.0 ? My own "as little as I guessed I needed for vlc" > install of 4.8.2 uses about 1.1G.
qtbin is a binary install from upstream. Building qt allows you to skip things like demos and examples. >> >> If you don't rotate logs, /var/log can get pretty big. >> > Ah, yes, I'll take your word for that :) > >> and of course: >> >> 36G /usr/src >> > I guess that *some* of that is not current. My own sources are in > /home/sources on my server, which I then export as /sources. At the > moment the weekly backup (tar, no compression) of /home - including > my notes and docs, as well as local copies of the books and the > build logs from the server, plus the occasional iso, all fits in 20GB. Yes, some of it is old tarballs. For instance, I have eight versions of openssh as well as logs and scripts. I have plenty of space, so there's no need to remove older versions. > But then, from time to time I prune out old things that I don't > expect to ever build again - before I last did that I was backing up > 26GB every week. My backup is rsync, so an update isn't too bad. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
