pkgbase conversion requiring additional disk space

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NiftySpace

I just used the pkgbasify tool to convert my system over to use pkgbase. Overall, it seems to have worked without an issue. pkg shows me the large number of packages to be installed:

Code: 
New packages to be INSTALLED:
        FreeBSD-acct: 14.3p1 [FreeBSD-base]
        FreeBSD-acct-man: 14.3p1 [FreeBSD-base]
        FreeBSD-acpi: 14.3p1 [FreeBSD-base]
        (.. elided ..)
        FreeBSD-zfs-dev: 14.3p1 [FreeBSD-base]
        FreeBSD-zfs-man: 14.3p1 [FreeBSD-base]
        FreeBSD-zoneinfo: 14.3p1 [FreeBSD-base]

Number of packages to be installed: 268

The process will require 1 GiB more space.

However, I'm quite curious about why an additional GiB of space is required. Does anyone know why? I would expect that the new pkgbase packages correspond exactly to the base system that comes from base.tgz, so my assumption is that the required disk space should be the same. Am I missing something?
 
NiftySpace said:
However, I'm quite curious about why an additional GiB of space is required. Does anyone know why?
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Think it's simply calculating what the total size of the to-be installed packages is. It doesn't account for the size of the existing base OS, as they weren't packages, so a "diff" of what was installed and what's going to be installed isn't possible to calculate (from a pkg(8) perspective). That base.tgz isn't a 'package', it's simply an archive of the base OS files that was extracted by the installer.
 
Move some directories to another ufs partition and mount them.
E.g. /home
Or /usr/local , but then you might need to run ldconfig.
 
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