From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 3 19:57:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wat-border.sentex.ca (waterloo-hespler.sentex.ca [199.212.135.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AF837BF76 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 19:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by wat-border.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA90753 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 22:57:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA19897 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 22:57:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000503225125.04551218@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:54:32 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: size of root (was Re: Debugging Kernel....) In-Reply-To: <200005040247.TAA66497@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20000504095941.B18453@freebie.lemis.com> <200005040124.VAA55655@account.abs.net> <20000504111136.B22025@freebie.lemis.com> <20000503185936.E72341@ethereal.net> <20000504114013.E22025@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:47 PM 5/3/2000 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I, for one, think that installing the stripped kernel is the correct > solution. I often have several kernels lying around in / (e.g. a > kernel.bak along with the kernel and kernel.old the system maintains), > and my poor root partition would run out of space fairly quickly Perhaps its time to up the default suggested size of / ? In this day and age of 13G IDE drives, having 150MB for root would be a more safe value no ? On the machines I configure I generally give myself this much at least. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message