I'm trying re-learn how to bring a new install up to -stable, and I've been following the instructions on
http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html and http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld and not doing a very good job of it. The recommended partition left me with only 1.4G for /usr, and it was 90% full when I finished unpacking the sys, src, ports, and xenocara tarballs. (ancient IBM thinkpad with only 256M RAM and 20G (17 real gig) or hard disk. 860 MHz or so CPU.) I had saved 2.5G out of the suggested size for /home, so I cut a 1G partition for /usr/ports and gave it the default newfs. mount on /mnt, "cp -pR /usr/ports/ /mnt/" (I always mess that up -- "mv /mnt/ports/* /mnt; mv /mnt/ports/.cvsignore /mnt".) Deleted the original contents of /usr/ports, which I now see was a mistake, and mounted the new partition on /usr/ports. And then I did a cvs co on src, ports, and xenocara. About an hour later, it tells me I have no inodes left on ports. "df -ih" tells me I have 398 M used on /usr/ports, which is 42%, but 155,676 inodes in use, which is 100%. I forgot to write down what it was trying to check out when it ran out. /usr/src looks like its complete, with 111,613 inodes in use and 70,273 free, 1.2G partition with 313M free. I'm thinking that's room enough to build the patches and a few other things I need. What size partition should I cut for /usr/ports, and how many inodes should I allocate it? Or should I just not try to bring /usr/ports up to stable? And what can I expect for /usr/xenocara? Just from unpacking the tarball, it's using close to 700M on /usr, so I'm planning on cutting it a partition, too. My thinking is to use my remaining 1.5G for a new /usr/ports, give it 500,000 inodes and cp -pR again, to save bandwidth on the mirror, then take the 1 G partition that would be freed, give it 300,000 inodes, and use it for /usr/xenocara. Can anyone tell me if that will be enough? Or maybe I should just do it the other way, from the patch sets, I think it was. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.
