Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:06:20 -0400 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: freebsd@hub.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very large kernel Message-ID: <47d0403c0808170906h22f11a03h524a5a50367d46a7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080815235546.65415dg5hblf1oxu@webmail.hub.org> References: <20080301073329.GA1081@Alex1.kruijff.org> <47C93FD2.1010902@FreeBSD.org> <20080815235546.65415dg5hblf1oxu@webmail.hub.org>
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:55 PM, <freebsd@hub.org> wrote: > Quoting "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.org>: > >> Alex de Kruijff wrote: >>> >>> I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is >>> this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to >>> save some space? >> >> Yes but if you encounter a panic and need to submit a bug report then you >> will need at least the kernel.debug and whatever modules you are using. > > Two questions for this ... > > a. can I move these to a larger partition temporarily, and if I have a > crash, move them back to do debugging? Yes. > > b. is there some setting I can use in make.conf to have it auto-install the > symbols files to a seperate directory on 'installkernel'? > I don't know of one, but that sounds like it could be useful. -Ben Kaduk
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