Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:15:20 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? Message-ID: <49A45558.9060000@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Sean Bruno wrote: > I noted that if I choose the auto defaults for my F/S layout, sysinstall > will not reserve enough space for root(512MB?). This is just barely > enough to recompile and install an updated kernel. Much more than that > and the F/S is full. > > I would assume that the default would be much larger now-a-days. I think > a simple doubling to 1G would be sufficient. > > Comments? > > Sean I have observed the same issue. Somehow there is a lot more stuff in /boot/kernel than there used to be. I'm guessing that a lot of it is symbols for the debugger, which used not to be there. And when you have /boot/kernel.old as well, it really gets pretty full there. I don't understand the comment made by another poster that 85MB is enough. I have a FreeBSD 7 box which was partitioned years ago (back in FreeBSD 2 days) which has only 256MB on the root FS. My process for installing the kernel is now cd /usr/src make installkernel .... this dies with a "file system full" error rm -r /boot/kernel.old make installkernel
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