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Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
Oct 4, 2026, 11:05 PM
@techokami with BSD, you can expect your /usr to get far larger than your / - the root essentially stays the size of the initial distro (base.tar + xbase.tar + whatever else you install), while /usr grows from everything you install (/usr/pkg) and build (/usr/src and /usr/pkgsrc). But that's a know-how that required me a few installs
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Techokamitechokami@woof.tech
Oct 4, 2026, 11:28 PM
@nina_kali_nina @MrDOS @plzupgrademe @netbsd this is why I'd like it all to just take the entire 2TB of disk rather than needing to dole out chunks of the space, in case one thing (/home or /usr) gets too big compared to the other
but I also know that traditionally you'd install a UNIX across multiple physical disks, because back then those disks didn't hold a lot of data, so I can see it being part of the experience
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