10 G not enough for building Linux Kernel?

Anders Lind · 02-25-2012, 01:02 AM

I tre-id build linux kernel 3.3-rc4 in my VmWare.
The root of Ubuntu is 10G.
After "make all" The /usr/src is like 6 G.
And after I run "make install", It gave me error message; no enough disk...

Is this normal?
Linux kernel is so huge nowadays?
How many disk it need usually?

Thank you

EDDY1 · 02-25-2012, 01:08 AM

Post the output of

Quote:

df -h

WizadNoNext · 04-15-2012, 04:51 AM

Oh it depends. Actually a lot of code is appearing on disk twice (as smaller files and merged files, which are ready to use drivers). I can't believe, that 10G is not enough for kernel. I know it could quite huge nowadays, just source of 3.3.1 is 444.5MiB, but it is not enough to fill 10G of space

catkin · 04-15-2012, 05:07 AM

"10 G not enough for building Linux Kernel?" I would do it for less. What's the currency?

I've got two copies of the kernel source, one used as a build environment but / (which has all the OS except for what's on /var and what's in /home) is only using 6.9 GB

Code:

c@CW8:~$ df -h /
Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root      jfs    15G  6.9G  7.5G  49% /

That's for Slackware 13.37 plus ~30 extra apps.

EDIT: the build environment itself (after building so with all the binaries) is only 1.3 GB:

Code:

c@CW8:~$ du -hs /home/c/src/linux-2.6.37.6/
1.3G	/home/c/src/linux-2.6.37.6/

sundialsvcs · 04-15-2012, 10:33 PM

I've built many a Linux kernel on a machine that had 512MB. The process of building a kernel is essentially identical to that of constructing any other "executable program" or "library" in any routine situation whatsoever. The only peculiar characteristic of "the Linux kernel, the computer program," is merely the context in which it is designed to run.