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
