On 2022-04-18, James Mintram <m...@jamesrm.com> wrote: > Hi. I am new to OpenBSD, so these questions come from my first > experience with the system. > > I selected the auto layout option when partitioning my 256GB drive. I have > then found issues while doing the following: > > 1) Cloning src from the github mirror and checking it out, completely fills > the /usr/src parition. > > 2) Building some ports fail because /usr/local/pobj is not on an wxallowed fs. > > My questions are: > > 1) Should the default /usr/src partition be bigger on large disks?
/usr/src is sized for just a checkout rather than a full repository mirror with history. This is normal for cvs (and if you do have a full repo mirror with cvs, that would be in a different place than /usr/src). If you're using the git conversion you could do a shallow checkout, or use a larger fs, or place it elsewhere. On a typical system I don't think it's helpful to have this much larger (though it is now starting to get a little tight for a checkout so maybe it could go up a few hundred MB). /usr/src isn't needed on a typical machine and raising the size will impact on sizes of other partitions, which might make it more likely people run into harder problems later.. > 2) Should there be a /usr/local/pobj partition created with correct mount > options? (I appreciate building ports is an "advanced" thing to do - but it > feels weird having to mess with partition layout after a fresh install just > to > build them) Ports doesn't use /usr/local/pobj by default (you can set it via WRKOBJDIR in mk.conf, but /usr/local isn't a great place for a filesystem with rapid changes during a port build). Also, /usr/local/pobj *is* normally wxallowed. If you are using ports I would strongly recommend a separate filesystem for /usr/ports, either with default ports-related directories (i.e. don't change dirs in mk.conf) and set that wxallowed, or with a separate WRKOBJDIR on a wxallowed filesystem. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
