From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 20:35:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78D41065678 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:35:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from phoenix.cs.uoguelph.ca (phoenix.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.94.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2588FC12 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:35:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.102]) by phoenix.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n1OKZJxf010293; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:35:19 -0500 Received: from localhost (rmacklem@localhost) by muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id n1OKdoB16232; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:39:50 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca: rmacklem owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:39:50 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Macklem X-X-Sender: rmacklem@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca To: L Campbell In-Reply-To: <792298050902241222y2927bbffj210715f259fd28bf@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <49A454AB.8040903@smo.de> <792298050902241222y2927bbffj210715f259fd28bf@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-1804928587-1235507990=:14414" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 131.104.94.216 Cc: Philipp Ost , FreeBSD Current , Sean Bruno Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:35:31 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---559023410-1804928587-1235507990=:14414 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, L Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Philipp Ost wrote: >> Sean Bruno wrote: >>> >>> I noted that if I choose the auto defaults for my F/S layout, sysinstal= l >>> will not reserve enough space for root(512MB?). =C2=A0This is just bare= ly >>> enough to recompile and install an updated kernel. =C2=A0Much more than= that >>> and the F/S is full. >> >> On my FreeBSD boxes the size of / is ~256MB of which are ~85MB in use. I= 'm >> perfectly happy with that ;-) >> >> I don't quite get your problem there... > > I suspect you're an extraordinary case. Running 8.0-CURRENT on my > laptop with a (very) slimmed down GENERIC, *one* copy of my kernel > takes up significantly more space than yours > > hark@kanaria> du -hd0 /boot/kernel > 120M /boot/kernel Depends upon whether you make separate copies of all the modules or just the kernel binary file (I'm in the habit of doing the latter, but I can=20 see the argument for the former being the default). rick ---559023410-1804928587-1235507990=:14414--