From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 10:13:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D631065670 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:13:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6448FC0C for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (client-82-31-2-50.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [82.31.2.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D04B5D42; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:13:21 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Bill Tillman Message-ID: <20100707111321.000056e9@unknown> In-Reply-To: <556061.93189.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <556061.93189.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:13:27 -0000 On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:02:54 -0700 (PDT) Bill Tillman wrote: > Doesn't that seem odd that the "default" partition size for root > (512M) isn't quite big enough? It's not that odd: nobody has bothered to update the default partition sizes in sysinstall for a good few years, I suspect because most people use a custom layout and haven't noticed that the defaults are bad. I'm going to checkin a fix in a couple of days. > Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) > to eliminate this problem? Yes, you should do. I don't usually use the default partitioning because for years I've been creating a 1GB /, 4GB /var and 1GB /tmp and the defaults sysinstall chooses are no good. > As I understand it this is > not actually the solution the "in the know" folks recommend. I was > advised to just delete kernel.old. I'd consider that bad advice: the defaults sysinstall chooses are currently just wrong, and you should indeed be setting / to at least 1GB so you don't run out of space. The 'solution' of deleting kernel.old or not installing symbols is just a workaround and is certainly less than ideal. -- Bruce Cran