On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Mark Benson wrote:

> I tried to setup pkgsrc on my 475 and it got most oft he way thru then
> stopped complaining about 'no free inodes'. I know they are part of the
> Unix FS structure in most fs types, is it out of disk space or has it
> got too many files on it or what?

Because pkgsrc has many small files, you often run out of inodes
before quite running out of blocks.

> How much space does pkgsrc usually take up?

Mine currently weighs in at 2Gb, but most of that is distfiles and
packages. It's really only a few hundred Mb. You will need working
room for distfiles, and to build, though.

Frederick