From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 13:22:28 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 095D5106566C for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:22:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38128FC0A for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:22:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o67DHLVf064768; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:17:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id o67DHBi4064767; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:17:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:17:11 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Bill Tillman Message-ID: <20100707131711.GB64676@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <556061.93189.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <556061.93189.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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 13:22:28 -0000 On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 05:02:54PM -0700, Bill Tillman wrote: > > Thanks guys. > > :-) > > Doesn't that seem odd that the "default" partition size for root > (512M) isn't quite big enough? Things change slowly. I think only a short while ago the default was 256 MB or even 128 MB. > > Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) > to eliminate this problem? Of course, make it whatever size you need and can afford. ////jerry > > Ed > > > ------------------------------ >   > I had the same problem and since my drives are large I just started making all my new builds with / set for 1G. As I understand it this is not actually the solution the "in the know" folks recommend. I was advised to just delete kernel.old. Of course this will work but what about when you might need kernel.old to get you out of a jamb or just want to keep it for nostalgia. >   > I think I'm finally at the point where I will stop doing make buildworlds unless absolutely needed. I've been keen on doing this regularly but I really should adopt the policy of if it ain't broken don't fix it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >