Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:59:01 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com> To: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> Cc: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Default FS Layout Too Small? Message-ID: <bb4a86c70902241259k12951594y9039721104d455c3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49A456E6.1040307@gmx.de> References: <1235502625.4345.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <49A44878.30707@gmx.de> <bb4a86c70902241210nc89cbf8v373da74e5b4f1a09@mail.gmail.com> <49A456E6.1040307@gmx.de>
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> wrote: > Maksim Yevmenkin schrieb: >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Christoph Mallon >> <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> Sean Bruno schrieb: >>>> >>>> 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? >>> >>> You are not supposed to compile stuff (or put any other large and often >>> changing stuff) on the root fs. >> >> uhmmm.... i _think_ he is talking about the fact that 512mb root fs is >> barely enough to keep /boot/kernel/ and /boot/kernel.old/ together. >> surely you agree that keeping previous (working) copy of the kernel is >> a "really good idea" when trying out new kernel. i personally have >> been bitten by the same problem. spinning hard drives are _really_ big >> and cheap those days, so i would say we probably should increase >> default root fs size. > > I have several old kernels on my 256MB / and there is no space problem. well, good for you :) unfortunately, i'm not as lucky... > uname -a FreeBSD yak.dev.footprint.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #2 r188108: Tue Feb 3 16:46:46 PST 2009 max@yak.dev.footprint.net:/usr/obj/usr/svn/head/usr/src/sys/USB2 amd64 > df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 496M 247M 209M 54% / > du -skh /boot/kernel/ 222M /boot/kernel/ > du -sk /boot/kernel/* | sort -rn -k1 | head -30 40448 /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols 11904 /boot/kernel/zfs.ko.symbols 11584 /boot/kernel/kernel 9888 /boot/kernel/xfs.ko.symbols 4272 /boot/kernel/if_ath.ko.symbols 2592 /boot/kernel/wlan.ko.symbols 2432 /boot/kernel/nfsclient.ko.symbols 1920 /boot/kernel/if_nxge.ko.symbols 1808 /boot/kernel/sound.ko.symbols 1808 /boot/kernel/cam.ko.symbols 1776 /boot/kernel/ahd.ko.symbols 1744 /boot/kernel/miibus.ko.symbols 1744 /boot/kernel/if_cxgb.ko.symbols 1664 /boot/kernel/linux.ko.symbols 1536 /boot/kernel/zfs.ko 1504 /boot/kernel/if_igb.ko.symbols 1488 /boot/kernel/if_em.ko.symbols 1456 /boot/kernel/iw_cxgb.ko.symbols 1408 /boot/kernel/usb2_core.ko.symbols 1392 /boot/kernel/ipl.ko.symbols 1376 /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko.symbols 1312 /boot/kernel/drm.ko.symbols 1168 /boot/kernel/pf.ko.symbols 1136 /boot/kernel/hwpmc.ko.symbols 1040 /boot/kernel/ext2fs.ko.symbols 1024 /boot/kernel/mpt.ko.symbols 1008 /boot/kernel/ahc.ko.symbols 992 /boot/kernel/ndis.ko.symbols 960 /boot/kernel/xfs.ko 944 /boot/kernel/radeon.ko.symbols so, imo, its very reasonable to just bump the default root fs size and be done with it. thanks, maxhelp
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