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Cc: Ed Flecko <edflecko@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0
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krad writes:

>  all i can say is your a brave boy 8) A 1 TB+ / slice would take
>  ages to fsck.

	For "ages" being less than ten (fifteen ?) minutes on a modern
system with reasonable memory ...
	... which should be necessary very rarely.  Even on my test
system, time between involuntary reboots is measured in weeks.


				Robert Huff