Hey, I just did a full ports fetch and I pulled down at least 40GB:
$ du -h /usr/ports/distfiles | tail -n 1 40.5G /usr/ports/distfiles A future fetcher will probably appreciate an up-to-date quote. If anyone has recent numbers for the total size of the package output and the size of the largest working directories, I'll incorporate those too and commit it. -- Scott Cheloha Index: share/man/man7/ports.7 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man7/ports.7,v retrieving revision 1.115 diff -u -p -r1.115 ports.7 --- share/man/man7/ports.7 3 Nov 2017 12:22:10 -0000 1.115 +++ share/man/man7/ports.7 26 Dec 2017 14:09:24 -0000 @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ will help. As far as possible, the log directory should be local to the machine running .Xr dpb 1 . .It -A full bulk will fetch over 20G of distfiles and create over 17G of packages. +A full bulk will fetch over 40G of distfiles and create over 17G of packages. The largest work directories are about 10G each. .It Take notice of
